Many residents in the province of Samar are struggling to cope with the consequences of protracted armed conflicts, compounded by powerful typhoons that have hit this underdeveloped area of central …
The present document has been developed as a practical tool to support State authorities, with consideration for their national specificities, in developing effective domestic legal frameworks, …
The ICRC will be participating, as an expert observer, in the Fourth Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting on the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR) that will take place in …
ICRC president Peter Maurer addresses the Human Rights Council in Geneva I am honored to address the Human Rights Council (HRC) for the third time and would like to take this opportunity to …
Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mr. President, High Commissioner, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honored to address the Human Rights Council …
The ICRC physical rehabilitation project in Bangladesh is creating a national cricket team consisting of people with disabilities. The team would represent Bangladesh during a five-nation tournament …
Article by Yves Daccord, director-general of the ICRC and chair of the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR), Geneva, published on Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) …
Geneva (ICRC) - In the margins of the 28th regular session of the Human Rights Council, ICRC President Peter Maurer met EU High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini. It was the first …
03-03-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Thousands of people have fled their homes as fighting between government security forces and armed groups escalates in Maguindanao province, in central Mindanao. The number …
Over the past year the ICRC has been able to reach more people in Yemen thanks to regular dialogue on humanitarian issues with the Yemeni authorities, community leaders, beneficiaries and actors 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.
