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Your digital donation receipts and thank-you letters

As a donor to the ICRC, you can receive your donation certificate by e-mail in PDF format, in addition to the paper version. Thank-you letters for your donations can be sent to you in the same way, …

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Syria: ICRC is calling for safe humanitarian access and protection of civilians

08-12-2024 The following quote is from ICRC’s head of delegation in Syria Stephan Sakalian on the humanitarian situation: Damascus (ICRC) — Our teams in Syria , including in Damascus, have been …

News release

Brazil: Meeting discusses protection challenges amid armed violence in north-east

The meeting was attended by government agencies and specialists from provisional protection programmes in the states of Alagoas, Bahía, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba and Pernambuco. Fortaleza (Ceará …

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Thailand: ICRC and Thammasat University screen film, host discussion on IHL and South-East Asian history

On 1 November, Thammasat University's Faculty of Law, together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), hosted a special screening of the acclaimed film, First They Killed My Father. …

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Thailand film screening and discussion on IHL and South-East Asian history

OEWG: ICRC Statement on International Law

Delivered by Kosuke Onishi, Legal Adviser, at the 9th Substantive Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025, New …

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South Africa: The 23rd Southern Africa and Indian Ocean States Regional IHL Seminar

spotlighting "the 75th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions – strengthening humanity" From 10 – 13 September 2024, the ICRC Pretoria Regional Delegation, in collaboration with the Department of …

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Group Photos of Participants of the Seminar

China: Experts discuss paths to bring peace and stability in Africa

On December 3, 2024, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hosted an event in Beijing to further elaborate and explore the nexus between humanitarian actions, development and peace in …

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Humanitarian-Development-Peace: Joint Action towards a Better Future in Africa

Brazil: Members of Safer Access network discuss ways to reduce impact of armed violence

04-12-2024 The event in Fortaleza covered operations in such fields as health, education, social work, youth and human rights. Fortaleza (Ceará state) – Educators, health personnel and social workers …

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OEWG: ICRC Statement on Threats

Delivered by Kosuke Onishi, Legal Adviser, at the 9th Substantive Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025, New …

Statement
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South Africa: Global Military Personnel Identification Conference

Convening State armed forces to create “international guidelines for identifying military personnel and preventing them from going missing” Launched in late 2023, the Central Tracing Agency’s …

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Group Photo of the MPI Conference participants

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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.

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