The upsurge in conflict in South Sudan has forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee. In the town of Leer in Unity State, 500 kilometers north of Juba, the ICRC has temporarily suspended its …
The protection of cultural property during armed conflict is based on the principle that: damage to the cultural property of any people means damage to the cultural heritage of all mankind (1954 …
Geneva, 21 May 2015 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement welcomes the announcement that thousands of migrants who have been stranded at sea will be able to access temporary shelter …
Roger comes from a part of Medellín plagued by gang warfare. If you come from there, no employer will touch you. But Roger was determined to get ahead. Thanks to the ICRC, he was able to open a small …
Fanny and her children fled the violence in their region of Colombia, only to land up in a dangerous, run-down part of Medellín. The ICRC helped them start a mobile potato-selling business. Today, …
Hosted by the ICRC, the Asia Pacific Media Conference saw 23 senior media representatives from 12 countries gather in Hiroshima, Japan from 26-28 November 2014. The deliberations lasted a day and a …
When families flee their homes, they can no longer tend their fields. When agricultural production drops, trade falls off; a sweeping, downward economic spiral. And when families flee their homes, …
A powerful quake, then hundreds of aftershocks. Death and destruction have brought fear and nightmares in their wake. Psycho-social support to hard hit communities aims at healing the minds of …
22-05-2015 Manila (ICRC) – More than 63,000 people, displaced by the month-long fighting in March between government security forces and armed groups in Maguindanao province (Mindanao), received …
21-05-2015 Geneva/Abuja (ICRC) – On his first official visit to Nigeria, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer has called on the international community …
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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.
