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 …
Ukraine: Learning to walk again In eastern Ukraine, a partnership with local health authorities seeks to help people who need physical rehabilitation support to participate fully in society. "By …
Speech delivered by Régis Savioz of the International Committee of the Red Cross at the Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance the Humanitarian Response to Gaza, 2 December 2024 Mr. President, dear …
As the world marks the International Day of People with Disabilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reaffirms its commitment to supporting people with disabilities, notably …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is active in over 100 countries, and we receive thousands of questions from contacts every week, many by people directly affected by armed conflict …
Clarifying the fate and whereabouts of Missing People from the 1990-1991 Gulf War As a result of the 1990-1991 Gulf War, over 1000 Iraqis, Kuwaitis and third nationals are still unaccounted for. …
In the last week of November, ICRC Warsaw organized a visit to the ICRC’s Central Tracing Agency Bureau for the International Armed Conflict between Russia and Ukraine and ICRC headquarters in Geneva …
01-12-2024 (Cairo - ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Al-Azhar University, one of the world’s oldest institutions of Islamic learning, hosted a seminar on "The …
29-11-2024 On November 28, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Shanghai Media Group (SMG) co-hosted a media workshop in Shanghai, focusing on the urgent issue of crisis reporting …
ICRC (Tehran) – The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent …
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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.
