It was the perfect setting for a wheelchair basketball match – the sun was shining, the court was sparkling and the teams were raring to show off some monster slam-dunk moves. Clearly, the …
04-02-2019 Maiduguri/Abuja (ICRC) – A health facility in Rann and shelters for internally displaced people were burnt down a few days ago, the latest in a series of attacks in north-east Nigeria’s …
04-02-2019 Baghdad/Geneva (ICRC) – Rebuilding Iraq's social fabric is key to ensuring that the country can leave its violent past behind, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross …
Amman (ICRC) – The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, completed a two-day visit to Jordan to continue and deepen the dialogue with the Jordanian …
Caracas-Geneva 2 February 2019 The International Committee of the Red Cross has been working in Venezuela for many years, focusing on meeting the humanitarian needs in the country. We are present on …
The relatives keep searching, but this long process still affects them. We look at the progress made and the challenges experienced in the search for missing persons during the period of violence. …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 31 January attended an event organized in Beijing by China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA). The issue being explored was the …
Kuwait (ICRC) - Acting as a neutral humanitarian intermediary, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today facilitated the safe return of seven sick and injured Yemeni nationals from …
People killed, injured or imprisoned... these are the visible face of violence in Latin America. What we don't see are the threats, extortion and abuse that affect thousands of families every day. …
The period following the signing of an agreement between the Colombian government and FARC-EP has given rise to a complex situation, prompting the ICRC to update its legal analysis of the context. On …
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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.
