Thirty-five outstanding nurses from 17 countries have been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, which recognizes exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster. …
09-05-2025 Geneva (ICRC) — As conflict rages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), driving mounting death, injury, and destruction and forcing tens of thousands to flee across …
09-05-2025 Kinshasa (ICRC) – On 8 May 2025, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, concluded her first official visit to the Democratic Republic of …
The ICRC’s Delegation in Athens closed at the end of 2024, after a decade of field operational presence in Greece. The evaluation of the ICRC Athens Delegation (2016-2024) assesses the relevance, …
Port-au-Prince, 8 May – On World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, the Haitian National Red Cross Society, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red …
By Jérémy Renaux, coordinator for the Protection of Family Links in Mexico and Central America for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). It wasn't until a few weeks ago, when my …
On May 8th of each year, the world marks the Red Cross and Red Crescent Day—a special occasion to appreciate the courage, compassion, and unwavering humanitarian commitment of the world’s largest …
8 May 2025 Every day, in communities around the world, the Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and staff choose to stand on the side of humanity . On this 8 May, we pay tribute to their unwavering …
"Every attack on a humanitarian is an attack on the community they served." This World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, we mourn our colleagues who were appallingly killed while trying to save lives. …
In the dry Gaza wind, the dust never quite settles. It clings to the canvas walls of the Red Cross Field Hospital, swirling through its walkways, and coating the skins of its patients and the doctors …
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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.
