Delivered by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the ICRC, at the High-Level Ministerial Side Event: Humanitarian Diplomacy in Action — Collective Response to Crises in the Middle East, New York Thank …
On 23 September 2025, on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed a new multiyear Strategic …
Not a single house remains standing in Masoud village of Nurgal district following the devastating earthquake in Afghanistan’s remote Kunar region that claimed more than 2,200 lives last month. Of …
A mother’s journey from loss to reunion: Life has been a series of intense challenges for Aziza*, a woman from Kabul. Several years ago, she lost her husband to the armed conflict in Afghanistan and …
22-09-2025 The following is a statement attributable to ICRC’s president Mirjana Spoljaric ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the need for states to act on their commitment …
Opening remarks delivered by ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric at the launch ceremony of the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel in New York, 21 September 2025. Excellencies, …
Alarmed by widespread violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in conflicts around the world and the resulting unconscionable human suffering, we, the leaders of Brazil, China, France, …
Communities in the Tigray region and the whole of northern Ethiopia suffered from a devastating war, from November 2020 until November 2022. Its scars and humanitarian consequences are still felt …
Panel Remarks by Gilles Carbonnier, Vice President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),at the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, Fourth Plenary Session, 19.09.2025. Excellencies, ladies and …
The climate crisis is accelerating rapidly, with 3.6 billion people living in highly vulnerable areas and exposed to more frequent and intense weather events. These climate impacts—such as droughts, …
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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.
