21-05-2020 Juba (ICRC) – An eruption of intercommunal violence in Jonglei State in north-eastern South Sudan has left hundreds dead, many more injured and thousands displaced. COVID-19 restrictions …
21-05-2020 Geneva (ICRC)—The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the five Nobel Peace Prize recipients being celebrated in a documentary series launched today by National …
Designated by Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) as one of only four COVID-19 treatment centres in the city, the Kabul Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) District hospital is adapting to …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has donated essential personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies to the Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) to support the ERC’s efforts in …
When Zainab Lawan Dalorima asked displaced people in Dalori camp what help they need, they mentioned food, shelters, buckets, and praying mats. Many of them had been forced to abandon their homes …
Facts and figures: July to December 2019 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Nairobi regional delegation was set up in 1973. The delegation's purpose is to carry out humanitarian …
Facts and figures: April to May 2020 The ICRC delegation in Ethiopia has rapidly adapted to the evolving reality of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country and is stepping up its …
19-05-2020 A statement from Esperanza Martinez, the head of health for the International Committee of the Red Cross. "This crisis underlines the chasm between health services in developed and …
Nearly 500,000 domestic animals belonging to communities affected by ethnic violence in three districts along the Oromia-Somali border (East Ethiopia) were vaccinated against three major diseases …
The current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting people and communities around the world, including Egypt. This new reality has had a huge impact on everyone’s life and led to major …
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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.
