2018 newsletter The year 2018 posed enormous challenges for the ICRC´s work in Venezuela due to the difficult economic and social situation that the country is experiencing. The organization helped …
15-03-2019 A three-day international round-table on “Humanitarian mine action, challenges and best practices” was organized in Tehran from 12 to 14 March 2019. Tehran (ICRC) – Experts from national …
Brussels III conference, 12-14 March 2019, speech by ICRC President, Peter Maurer Syria is going through a period of transition with immense challenges. The fighting continues in some parts and the …
Kuwait (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross is participating in the Middle East Psychological Association’s conference from 14 to 16 March in Kuwait, to discuss the impact of armed …
It has been five months since an earthquake and ensuing tsunami and soil liquefactions caused havoc in several parts of Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi. But the gruesome scenes of death and destruction …
The 17th Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot for Asia Pacific region, co-organized by the international Committee of the Red Cross and the Hong Kong Red Cross, concluded in Hong Kong. …
That day nine words changed her life. “Dear Mother. How are you? We are in Bangladesh.” Some months ago, Adere Begum* would not have known that one day just nine words would change her life. But …
Seventy years on, the Geneva Conventions are much more than a legacy, or simply something to be proud of and commemorate. A lot has been achieved since 1949...But much more needs to be done... Read …
President's address at the Graduate Institute, Geneva Destroyed buildings in Mosul, Iraq. CC BY-NC-ND/ ICRC/ Clare Cameron It's always a pleasure to speak at the Graduate Institute and with an …
Due to its unique mandate, the ICRC enjoys specific privileges and immunities under international and domestic law. But why exactly does the ICRC need them? Knut Dörmann, the ICRC's chief legal …
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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.
