"Every night I would pray, hoping he would somehow find us and bring us to a place where our children could dream of a future,” said Mariam, who was recently reunited with her husband after her …
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the independent evaluation of the ICRC learning culture. Conducted from June 2023 through April 2024, this evaluation supported the ICRC’s …
Delivered by Ms. Laetitia Courtois, Permanent Observer and Head of Delegation, UN General Assembly debate on strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the …
As a donor to the ICRC, you can receive your donation certificate by e-mail in PDF format, in addition to the paper version. Thank-you letters for your donations can be sent to you in the same way, …
08-12-2024 The following quote is from ICRC’s head of delegation in Syria Stephan Sakalian on the humanitarian situation: Damascus (ICRC) — Our teams in Syria , including in Damascus, have been …
The meeting was attended by government agencies and specialists from provisional protection programmes in the states of Alagoas, Bahía, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba and Pernambuco. Fortaleza (Ceará …
On 1 November, Thammasat University's Faculty of Law, together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), hosted a special screening of the acclaimed film, First They Killed My Father. …
Delivered by Kosuke Onishi, Legal Adviser, at the 9th Substantive Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025, New …
spotlighting "the 75th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions – strengthening humanity" From 10 – 13 September 2024, the ICRC Pretoria Regional Delegation, in collaboration with the Department of …
On December 3, 2024, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hosted an event in Beijing to further elaborate and explore the nexus between humanitarian actions, development and peace in …
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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
