21-08-2025 Geneva/Amman (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), under the patronage of His Excellency Mr Kim Pil-Woo, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Jordan, …
15 July to 15 August 2025 Since 13 July, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), has been fully mobilized to respond to some of the …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Z Zurich Foundation have entered a multi-year collaboration to support and expand mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in …
Statement from Julien Lerisson, Head of Delegation in Israel and the occupied territories "The civilian population in Gaza is living in abhorrent conditions. Further displacement and an …
January to June 2025 Following the escalation of armed conflict and violence across South Sudan in the first half of 2025, the ICRC stepped up its surgical capacity conducting hundreds of surgeries …
Pretoria, 19 August 2025 On World Humanitarian Day, the Deputy Minister of South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Alvin Botes, alongside the Head of the …
Opinion: By Yasmine Praz Dessimoz, Director of Operations for the ICRC I have sent colleagues from the International Committee of the Red Cross into war zones. I’ve waited anxiously for check-in …
On World Humanitarian Day , we honour the courage and commitment of those who put themselves on the line to bring relief in times of conflict and disaster. This year’s commemoration comes with a …
This statement on World Humanitarian Day is attributed to Kate Forbes, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the …
Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, on 18 August 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand and the 11th HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Lecture on …
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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.
