Renk, a small town in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, is situated on the eastern banks of the White Nile River and is the headquarters of Renk county. Since the outbreak of fighting in Sudan in April …
14-02-2025 Munich (ICRC) – As world leaders gather at the Munich Security Conference, Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), warns of the mounting costs …
It was a whirlwind, red-letter romance. Mariegen Sumaylo was then a 31-year-old field nurse for the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) in 1991 when she first met her colleague, Alfonsito “Fons” Balo, in …
With the implementation of a ceasefire agreement, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have begun a journey back to their homes – or what is left of them Many are now seeing for themselves …
The Norwegian Red Cross Integrated Hospital (NorHosp) is a rapidly deployable emergency hospital designed to provide critical healthcare services within 72–96 hours of a crisis. Operated in …
About the Paul Reuter Prize On 12 February 2025, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hosted the 13th Paul Reuter Prize Award Ceremony, where Professor Andrew Clapham was revealed as …
Countless lives have been saved over the three weeks of the ceasefire. This period of calm has had a tangible impact on people's lives – including those released from captivity and those spared from …
2024 Symposium on Cybersecurity and Data Protection in Humanitarian Action Addressing issues related to the new and emerging technologies, cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of …
In 2024, communities in Afghanistan continued to face significant challenges to access basic necessities such as healthcare, food and clean water. The humanitarian situation in the country remains …
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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.
