The humanitarian award aims to promote reporting on humanitarian issues in Jordanian media and through it, reward journalists who are putting people in the spotlight of their stories on humanitarian …
A war surgeon based in South Sudan, Carina Gianserra has been working for three years at the ICRC treating patients wounded by conflict. Being a war surgeon in one of the organisation's most …
21-06-2021 Geneva, 22 June 2021 – The humanitarian sector has a key role to play in addressing the climate and environment crises that affect people’s lives and livelihoods around the world every …
The ICRC established the Support Relationships in Armed Conflict Initiative (SRI) in response to the scale of human suffering resulting from armed conflicts featuring the provision of external …
An outbreak of COVID-19 in a prison can be devastating for both the prison population and prison staff. This is especially true for overcrowded facilities where the health care system is …
How important is connectivity for people living through a crisis? How can connectivity support humanitarian operations? And what happens when connectivity fails - or is denied? To launch the fifth …
Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer at the Moscow International Security Conference, June 23, 2021 Excellencies, colleagues. It is a pleasure to address you today and I extend my warm appreciation to …
23-06-2021 Joint statement of the Tripartite Commission At the 51 st Tripartite Commission (TC) meeting yesterday, held under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), it …
The Regional International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Department at the International Committee of the Red Cross is proud to organize for the fifth time a writing competition in Arabic to engage the …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) helped facilitate medical evacuation of wounded people by the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) from Togoga village, in Ethiopia's Tigray region. …
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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.
