This template has been developed to help colleagues involved in restoring family links (RFL) and protecting family links (PFL) develop contingency plans based on the needs of the separated, missing, …
In a year beset with overlapping crises and humanitarian needs of unprecedented scale, the ICRC’s mandate and mission remained as relevant as ever. An operating environment of vast humanitarian needs …
For years, the Mirwais Regional Hospital (MRH) in Kandahar grappled with unreliable electricity supply, significantly hindering its ability to function as a critical health care hub for over a …
This review of the Physical Rehabilitation Programme’s worldwide activities in 2023 provides an illustrated, region-by-region overview of how the ICRC helps people with disabilities, victims of armed …
Statement by Mirjana Spoljaric, President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Over five decades ago, the drafters of the NPT …
What does IHL say about occupation law and when is a territory considered occupied? The numerous rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) that seek to protect civilians, most prominently in the …
The Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay is headquartered in Brasília, with offices in Fortaleza (CE), São …
International Committee of the Red Cross & Iraqi Red Crescent Society Welcome to our annual photography competition. The ICRC-IRCS Photography Award is an annual photography competition launched in …
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Jordan is happy to organize its second International Humanitarian Law (“ IHL ”) essay writing competition to engage the law students on relevant IHL …
From her new home in a small village of just over 300 people in the Taraclia district in the south of Moldova, Galina has a new lease on life. “If it wasn’t your push, your capital, I probably …
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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.
