Boris Michel, the ICRC's regional director for Asia and the Pacific, was in Sri Lanka recently for an annual seminar organized by the Ministry of Defence. The high-level seminar was attended by …
Post your questions on Twitter via #IHLinAction On 27 September 2017, the ICRC will convene a live-streamed panel of experts at the Humanitarium to discuss how to change the narrative on IHL, by …
This information kit deals with the following issues: Penal repression: punishing war crimes; Obligations in terms of penal repression; General principles of international criminal law; Universal …
ICRC calls on parties to armed conflict to protect civilians, including youth The delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the African Union (AU) took part to the …
On 8 September, Lukudu Kennedy Laki Emmanuel, was killed in the line of duty in South Sudan. Kennedy, a truck driver at the ICRC, was out delivering essential goods when the convoy of trucks came …
To commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared, we brought together a storyteller and several families of missing people. The storyteller shared stories of the missing people in a market …
In the town of Kikwit, in the western province of Kwilu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 12,000 people are in an alarming humanitarian situation. These people, most of them women and …
This exhibition drew on video and audio recordings from the ICRC's archives dating as far back as 1922 to show the staggering toll that wars have taken on cities and the people living in them. But it …
22-09-2017 New York – As suspected cholera cases in Yemen reached 700,000 in just five months, ICRC President Peter Maurer pressed national, regional, and international actors to respect the rules of …
High-Level Event on the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, United Nations General Assembly, 72nd session. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer Like others in this room, I was in Yemen just a few …
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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.
