The ambassador of Japan, Mr Masahiko Kiya, paid a visit to the Juba Military Hospital last month where he saw patients with gunshot wounds and met with members of an International Committee of the …
09-02-2016 Port Moresby– The government of Papua New Guinea has signed an agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that will enable the humanitarian organisation to …
The ICRC has been present in Lebanon since 1967 and has carried out its humanitarian work through periods of conflict, including 1975-1990 civil war. Currently it is responding to the rapidly growing …
Beirut (ICRC) –- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut and the Lebanese Ministry of Health today signed a memorandum of understanding …
In Lebanon, the ICRC's work includes visiting detainees and finding missing persons. We are helping displaced people fleeing war and violence across the region and the communities hosting them. The …
On 5 February 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the ICRC hosted the fifth workshop on data protection as part of good governance in international organisations at the ICRC …
Written by Marianne Gasser, head of the ICRC delegation in Syria. It was 15 March, 2011. I took the usual short walk to my office, enjoying the cool breeze and soft glow of a beautiful spring …
Residents of Krasnohorivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region are rebuilding homes destroyed during shelling. The repair teams consist of skilled workers who have lost their jobs due to the conflict, and …
Speech given by Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the Syria Pledging Conference 2016 in London. Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, When my colleagues …
Joint teams of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) have managed to deliver food and hygiene items for more than twelve thousand people in the …
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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.
