Over the last few years, there has been increased recognition of the urgent need to strengthen climate action in places enduring armed conflict and other fragile settings, as reflected in the COP28 …
During a visit to Monaco by Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Government of Monaco and the ICRC reaffirmed their partnership and commitment to …
10-10-2025 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has intensified its humanitarian response in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where escalating conflict has caused …
The Global Initiative to Galvanize Political Commitment to International Humanitarian Law was launched in September 2024 by Brazil, China, France, Jordan, Kazakhstan and South Africa, together with …
10-10-2025 Geneva (ICRC) –The Assembly, the governing body of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), announced today that it has elected Jürg Lauber as the ICRC's next vice-president. …
Climate change is an existential threat to humanity. Warming of the atmosphere, oceans and land – driven by human activity – is causing climate variations and extremes throughout the world. More than …
10-10-2025 The following is a statement attributable to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, on the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Geneva …
Delivered by Christopher Harland, Deputy Permanent Observer of the ICRC to the United Nations. Mr. Chair, Distinguished Delegates, Colleagues, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
09-10-2025 Tashkent (ICRC) – The signature of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) by the Kyrgyz Republic on 26 September 2025 is an important step in reaffirming the country’s …
Chair, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) unequivocally condemns all acts of terrorism, whether in times of armed conflict or not, and regardless of the perpetrators. Terrorism is …
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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.
