As part of its emergency response, the ICRC intensified its efforts to support Dessie prison authorities to protect the rights and dignity of the detainees. The response included rehabilitation of …
Aleppo (ICRC) – International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) president Mirjana Spoljaric visited Aleppo today, five days after a deadly earthquake hit southern Türkiye and northwest Syria. Ms …
When two deadly quakes ripped across southern Türkiye and northwest Syria on February 6, thousands of buildings collapsed, and tens of thousands of lives were lost. No words can describe the sight of …
Geneva (ICRC) – A statement from Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, following her visit to Syria from 9-14 February: For more than a decade, people across …
15-02-2023 (Cairo, ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERCS) signed on Monday the annual Operational Cooperation Agreement (OCA) that …
The ideas and actions that led to the creation of the largest humanitarian movement in the world are still as startlingly modern and pertinent as ever. The pictures presented here pay homage to the …
16-02-2023 Geneva (ICRC) –The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 17 February marks its 160th year of work to bring relief to millions of people adversely affected by armed conflict. …
We recently observed mentions of several false allegations related to the ICRC, which can have harmful consequences not only on our activities in places where we operate, but most importantly can …
About 65 per cent of people living with a disability in Pakistan are women and girls, their existing gender disadvantage compounded by their disability. In December 2022, the International Committee …
17-02-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – An independent investigation by a consortium of news organizations (known as “Forbidden Stories”) led to the publication on 16 February 2023 of a number of articles 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.
