Gaza – Gazans are facing a critical “double crisis” as they struggle to cope with an acute electricity shortage just as COVID-19 has escaped containment and begun community transmission among the …
Statement to Arria Formula Meeting on Cyber Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure Thanks to the Government of Indonesia – and especially to Ambassador Djani – for the invitation to address you …
26-08-2020 Nairobi (ICRC)—As 30 August marks International Day of the Disappeared, nearly 44,000 people across Africa are registered as missing with the International Committee of the Red Cross …
The report Clarifying the fate and whereabouts of missing migrants: Exchanging information along migratory routes lays out the extensive discussions and conclusions of a workshop co-organised in …
Detainees and places of detention are some of the most vulnerable to the spread of the COVID-19. Many places of detention can be densely populated making the spread of the disease easier. The ICRC …
25-08-2020 Beirut/Geneva (ICRC) – Three weeks after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut port and surrounding neighbourhoods, the physical and psychological damage it inflicted is staggering. At …
The essay competition on International Humanitarian Law aims to encourage scholarship on IHL examined in the context of the Philippines by Filipino academics and practitioners. Prizes The winner of …
25-08-2020 Nairobi (ICRC)—Primary health care visits and vaccination coverage have sharply declined in Somalia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, raising concerns that diseases such as respiratory …
Following a resolution adopted by the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, between 2015 and 2019 Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) jointly …
COVID-19 RESPONSE IN BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN CONE COUNTRIES C. de Almeida/ICRC BRASILIA REGIONAL DELEGATION / JUNE-JULY 2020 In light of the pandemic, the ICRC Regional Delegation adapted its modus …
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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.
