The ICRC is working closely with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) to provide food, water, health care and other forms of relief assistance to Syrian people affected by the fighting in the country. …
An exhibition of powerful photographs and films by award-winning British photographer and filmmaker Nick Danziger tells the stories of eleven women living in conflict zones during the first decade of …
Nearly 40 years after the conflict ended, landmines laid along the Zimbabwe's border with Mozambique continue to pose a threat to the lives and livelihoods of rural communities. Since 2012, the ICRC …
On Friday January 29, more than 150 relatives of people who have gone #missing during the Lebanese war gathered for an... Posted by اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر on Tuesday, February 2, …
Thousands fled fighting in late 2014 between the Nigerian army and the armed opposition in Adamawa State, north-east Nigeria. Many homes were burned to the ground. A few months ago people were able …
Armed conflicts and other situations of violence affect women, men, girls and boys in different ways. But sexual violence, which remains a widespread phenomenon in most modern conflicts, has damaging …
Thousands fled fighting in late 2014 between the Nigerian army and the armed opposition in Adamawa State, north-east Nigeria. Many homes were burned to the ground. A few months ago people were able …
From 8 to 10 December 2015, the Safer Access team held an art competition for National Societies attending the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva. We asked …
Nigeria's armed conflict has displaced 2 million people and left 7 million in need of humanitarian aid in the four north-eastern states (Adamawa, Borno, Gombe and Yobe). Violent communal clashes in …
During the harsh winter months, the treacherous journey on foot from Syria into Lebanon is fraught with even more danger than usual, as snow and ice leave people stranded with no food or shelter. …
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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.
