As the international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine enters its fifth week, the level of death, destruction, and suffering that continues to be inflicted on civilians is abhorrent and …
ICRC surgical programmes for war victims have been developed over many years, based on "appropriate" responses for a given situation. This often involves making the best of limited resources in an …
05-04-2022 Nairobi (ICRC) – More than a quarter of Africa’s people – 346 million – are facing a food security crisis that has millions of families skipping meals every day, an alarming hunger …
Families recently arrived in an internally displaced camp in Gwoza Over the past few months, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has observed increasing humanitarian needs due to the …
In 2021, the ICRC, together with its Partners UNHCR and WFP, launched a project to identify and test more sustainable alternatives to the polypropylene woven bag that is commonly used as packaging …
International humanitarian law (IHL) is a set of rules that, in times of armed conflict, seeks – for humanitarian reasons – to protect persons who are not, or are no longer, directly participating …
"I spent all night yesterday thinking of the moment I will finally see my dad again. I wanted to tell him about school, my friends and how difficult life is without him, but also how good of a …
06-04-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) team has led a convoy of buses and private cars carrying more than 1,000 people to Zaporizhzhia. The civilians …
This report documents a process that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is developing to achieve more effective operations in cases of protracted urban armed conflict. The duration …
While climate is changing everywhere, it is people living in fragile environments who are most severely affected. We recently co-organised a workshop with thinktank INSS to explore the issue. Fathi …
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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.
