Response to public health emergencies requires changes in regular behavioural patterns. Encouraging these changes requires coordination and an understanding of the culture and communities affected. …
02-07-2020 Ouagadougou (ICRC) – For several months now, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been concerned by the lack of compliance with international humanitarian law in Burkina …
The continued wave of Black Lives Matter and other anti-racism protests, across the United States and beyond, has put a spotlight firmly on deeply ingrained historic and systemic racist attitudes and …
Please join us online on Wednesday 1 July at 15:00 hrs Geneva (14:00 hrs UK) to hear the findings of our recent review which identifies existing measures to address violence against health care and, …
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 …
In Myanmar, and many other countries where the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is present, the threat of COVID-19 is particularly acute for communities living in areas affected by …
Silk cocoons, honey, saffron, mulberry leaves and home-made cheese – sounds like a list of treasures from an exotic land? They are what have been keeping farmers in Azerbaijan occupied and …
30-06-2020 Damascus/Geneva (ICRC) - A dramatically deteriorating economic situation, the impact of expanded sanctions, a simmering COVID-19 crisis and ongoing fighting in parts of the country are …
COVID-19 has brought about unprecedented global challenges, including to the respect of cultural and religious traditions – among them, a safe and dignified burial for those who lost their lives …
Statement by ICRC President Peter Maurer The shameful truth is this: people are dying needlessly in this war because of the humanitarian aid they depend on is being bargained away in political …
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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.
