Wheelchair basketball training, one of the main activities promoting social inclusion of people with disabilities under the Physical Rehabilitation Programme of the International Committee of the Red …
The speakers, participants, and guests of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Police Colloquium. From 28 November to 1 December, the ICRC jointly organized the 2nd Asia-Pacific Police Colloquium with the …
Decades of conflict, insecurity, climate-related phenomena, and natural disasters have affected the overall health indicators in Somalia, most of which score very low. An extreme drought caused by …
At a moment in history when the worst has become too easily imaginable, ICRC's President Mirjana Spoljaric urges all states to stick to their common legal obligation to respect and ensure respect for …
Keynote speech by Nils Melzer, Director of International Law, Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy on the occasion of the launch of the International Review of the Red Cross' double-edition entitled …
Nadezhda and her husband Vasily are from the village of Blizhneye, in the Donetsk region. They were school sweethearts who have been married for many years. This year, on a March evening, they were …
A regional workshop on climate change and protection of environment, focusing on the intersections between international humanitarian law (IHL) and Islamic perspectives, hosted by the ICRC in Amman, …
Geneva (ICRC) – Humanitarian needs in dozens of countries from Yemen to Somalia, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo are rising, a pattern that the International Committee of the Red …
There are more than 100 armed conflicts in the world today. The suffering caused by these conflicts, combined with climate shocks and rising food and energy prices, will make 2023 a year of vast …
This report marks ten years of the Health Care in Danger initiative in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The stories it contains reflect the work that National Society staff and …
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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.
