With more than half a million deaths recorded globally, the COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the worst health crisis the world has faced in modern times. It has come as a reminder not only of the …
In November 2001, 20 young men left their homes in Jogimara village, central Nepal, to work on an airport runway in Kotbada, some 800 km away in mid-western Nepal. Four months later, it was reported …
Water and sanitation personnel show extraordinary dedication in some of the most difficult of places – war zones. Their efforts go largely unrecognized, and now they face the additional burden of …
On 28 November 2019, the ICRC was invited to give a speech on "The Cutting Edge of IHL and Applied Buddhist Principles," at the first International Conference on Buddhist Ethics, Education, and …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Sanata Dharma University co-hosted a workshop on inter-denominational Christian ethics and international humanitarian law (IHL). Held in …
This report, available in the download box below, lays out the discussions and conclusions of a workshop co-organised in Jordan in September 2019 by the ICRC and swisspeace. It contains …
As follow up to the collaboration between the ICRC and the Buddhist community in Indonesia in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic , the ICRC co-organized another webinar with Smaratungga Buddhist …
14-07-2020 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the humanitarian impact of reported military activity along the international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, …
Facts and figures With the onset of the COVID-19 crisis mid-March, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) adjusted its ongoing humanitarian response and support in the region. Working 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.
