By Tadateru Konoé, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Neutral and impartial …
The 8 May is the World Red Cross Red Crescent Day. On this occasion, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement launches a global conversation celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the …
The World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is held annually on 8 May. This year, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement launches a global conversation celebrating the 50th Anniversary of …
In April 2015, the ICRC and the Lebanese Red Cross organized a special photo exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the start of the civil war in Lebanon. The exhibition featured photographs from …
This page regroups ICRC and BBC coverage of our new 'snapshot' initiative to reunite families caught up in the violence in South Sudan. Watch BBC video coverage and read web story on our work to …
Australian Red Cross delegate Dr Debra Blackmore recently returned home to Australia after 14 months working as deputy health coordinator with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in …
07-05-2015 Abuja/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Nigerian Red Cross have delivered aid to a group of 275 people, mainly women and children, who had been …
The ICRC's director of operations, Dominik Stillhart, has said the humanitarian situation in Syria has deteriorated sharply during the past few weeks and the need for food, water and medical supplies …
As the world's largest humanitarian organisation, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement spans many different peoples, cultures and outlooks. However, all 189 member countries follow …
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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.
