The following is a statement attributable to ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric on the humanitarian situation in Gaza New York (ICRC)—There is no excuse for what is happening in Gaza. The scale of …
Health services are among the earliest and most devastating casualties of war, with over 3,000 attacks recorded between 2023 and 2024—despite protection under international humanitarian law. As …
Every day at Klessoum Prison in N’Djamena, some of its inmates set about making soap – a far cry from the typical image of prison life. Since 2022, the prison’s inmates have been taking part in a …
The conflict in Oromia has deeply affected communities’ daily lives, particularly in the western part of the region, not far from the borders with Sudan and South Sudan. Arpita Mitra, an ICRC …
In a series of online articles, the ICRC team in London interviews British and Irish delegates working across the world. This month, we speak to Rieke Hayes, a physiotherapist from Ireland. After …
Hunger deepens as farmers in conflict-affected northeast struggle to survive Every morning, a procession of villagers make their way from Dikwa, a town in northeastern Nigeria to farmlands, often …
21-07-2025 Maiduguri (ICRC) – Across conflict-affected areas of northeast Nigeria, more than 3.7 million people face food insecurity*, many of them farmers who once nourished their communities. Years …
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation for East Asia in Beijing — a significant and commemorative …
19-07-2025 Geneva (ICRC) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stands ready to help facilitate the release of people detained in relation to the conflict under a declaration …
18-07-2025 Damascus – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in southern Syria, and particularly in Sweida, where …
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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.
