As TV channels flashed news announcing a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of COVID-19 cases in Pakistan, a sense of fear came upon Shahbaz Khan Mughal. "It was not fear of the novel …
Statement on agenda item "Norms, rules, and principles" within the open-ended working group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security …
Statement to UN Security Council Open Debate: Pandemics and Security Conflict zones are the sharp end of pandemics. Communities are already living on a knife edge where additional shocks can be …
The ICRC in Cairo and Rabat, along with the League of the Arab States and the National Committee on IHL in the Kingdom of Morocco, is co-organizing a panel discussion on the occasion of launching the …
In 2011, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a team of renowned experts embarked on a major project: updating the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their …
In 2011, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a team of renowned experts embarked on a major project: updating the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their …
On 1 July, the jury awarded the Humanitarian Visa d'Or to Alfredo Bosco, an Italian freelance photojournalist working with the Milanese Luz agency. Alfredo Bosco's report, entitled Forgotten …
Confidentiality in communications with affected populations, other humanitarian partners, parties to a conflict and other interlocutors is essential to carry out humanitarian operations. Breaches of …
There are important considerations that must be taken into account when managing and handling of the deceased when they have died of COVID-19. Families and communities should take precautions when …
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, known informally as the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, …
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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.
