12-09-2024 Kyiv (ICRC) – Three staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were killed on Thursday after shelling hit the site of a planned frontline aid distribution in the …
Over the last few years, there has been increased recognition of the urgent need to strengthen climate action in places enduring armed conflict and other fragile settings, as reflected in the COP28 …
12-09-2024 Invitation to Representatives of the Media Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Four Geneva Conventions and Launch of the international humanitarian law Caucus What: A …
The Humanity in Action Report provides an at-a-glance guide of how we protected and assisted victims of armed conflict and other violence in some of the world's most challenging environments in 2023. …
"Time moves quickly, and we must find ways to keep going, to find purpose in our pain," said Lana Kochinyan, who lost her husband in the 2020 conflict escalation. Over the past few years, Lana has …
Family members can become separated or go missing as a result of conflict, disaster, along a migratory route or during other situations requiring a humanitarian response. We at the ICRC restore and …
Speech of Balthasar Staehelin, Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for East Asia, at the Commemoration Ceremony of the 75th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, War Memorial of Korea, Seoul, …
A statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Agenda item 8 – General Exchange of Views Geneva, 10th September …
High-level Statement by Dr Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President of the ICRC, at the 12th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, 10-13 September 2024, Geneva Madam President, …
Doctor Odans describes himself as a “child of Cité Soleil”. He loves his community and is proud of its people. He wants a better future for them. He dreams of something different for his …
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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.
