Search results

3651 results found

Asia-Pacific: The story of 2021 in photos

… wheelchairs to basketball clubs to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. … Cipolla records a podcast for the Diplomacy, Law & Policy Forum during her visit to … to utilize Japanese technology to help solve humanitarian issues in conflict zones, the ICRC …

Somalia: Urgent food aid for 36 000 displaced people

… 23-09-2014 Nairobi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross … boosts self-reliance, promotes international humanitarian law, visits detainees and restores contact …

News release

23 years on, more than 1,600 people still missing in Kosovo

… they had to carry for a long time now. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) … Mr. Gashi said. In line with international humanitarian law, families of missing people have the Right …

News release

Falkland/Malvinas Islands: Forensic field work to identify remains of Argentine soldiers comes to an end

… kind of operation and the strength of their humanitarian commitment was what made it … in accordance with their obligation under international humanitarian law to identify those killed on the …

News release

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Health care increasingly difficult to access in North and South Kivu

… carried out in September 2025 by the International Committee of the Red Cross … of armed violence and the fact that many humanitarian organizations have had to halt … wounded. Under international humanitarian law, the wounded and sick must have access to …

News release
Des travailleurs humanitaires chargent de grandes boîtes de matériel médical sur des motos devant un centre de santé rural, en préparation pour la livraison d’aide dans des zones reculées

Afghanistan: Medical facilities must not be put at risk

… 13-09-2016 Kabul / ICRC - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) … purposes are protected under international humanitarian law. All those in need of treatment, be it a …

News release

The potential human cost of cyber operations

… 6: The protection afforded by existing law, and possible avenues to reduce the human … OPERATIONS Foreword One of the main aims of international humanitarian law (IHL) is to protect the …

Law and policy topic

50 years of the Fundamental Principles: A UK and Ireland perspective

… The International Red Cross Red Cross Movement is … about what it was like to deliver impartial humanitarian assistance in Derry/Londonderry … Principles and international humanitarian law," he explained. "We need to remain focused …

Article

Syria conflict: Siege and suffering

… besieged towns. Now, my organisation, the International Committee of the Red Cross … if not hundreds, of places in Syria where humanitarian assistance is desperately needed. … should respect "international humanitarian law" - I mean respect civilians, do not attack …

Article

Safer Access to Public Essential Services - report

… between and reducing and mitigating its humanitarian armed groups, deaths and injuries … services is not often covered in maintain law and order. the media, but it is having an … of armed violence in urban settings. The International Committee of the Red Cross at the …

Article

Didn’t find what you were looking for?

Try one of the following resources:

ICRC library

Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.