Female detainees are often the sole providers for their families, so their detention results in great economic hardship for their loved ones. An innovative income generating project run by the ICRC …
The five founders of the ICRC: Gustave Moynier (top left), Louis Appia (bottom left), Guillaume-Henri Dufour (centre), Henry Dunant (top right), and Théodore Maunoir (bottom right). The ICRC was …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) believes that the use of toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement purposes should be limited exclusively to riot control agents, which have …
In the run-up to the Chemical Weapons Convention review conference, the ICRC is urging that the use of toxic chemicals for law enforcement be limited to riot control agents – also known as ‘tear gas’ …
In contemporary armed conflicts civilians are the primary victims of violations of IHL committed by both State and non-State parties. The nature of contemporary armed conflicts continues to provide …
In the case of hunger strikes in prisons, the role of the ICRC, as a humanitarian organization, is to strive to ensure that the treatment detainees receive and the conditions in which they are held …
Without its information and communication technology engineers, the ICRC would be unable to help the victims of conflict. Mastery of simple and complex technology, from HF radio to data transmission …
Cité Soleil, a large working-class area of Port-au-Prince, is just starting to recover from years of violence, during which it was too dangerous to provide even the most basic of services. © ICRC / …
The law says hospitals, ambulances and health-care workers must be protected and should never be targeted as they carry out their regular duties. This is often far from the reality. Worldwide, the …
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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.
