A story published in The New Yorker includes excerpts of confidential ICRC correspondence that the publication says was ...

International humanitarian law (IHL) safeguards various categories of individuals and entities in times of armed conflict; the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are instrumental in ...

In an age when anyone can denounce violations online or on social media, the ICRC's confidential approach saves lives. Here ...

The ICRC has been present in Israel and the occupied territories (including the Golan, West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Shebaa Farms) since 1967. As a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian ...

As unmanned systems have become an increasingly prominent feature of contemporary armed conflict, their increasing ...

27 January is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. For the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), it also marks a failure, the failure to help and protect the millions of ...

Refugees are people who have crossed an international frontier and are at risk or have been victims of persecution in their country of origin. Internally displaced persons (IDPs), on the other hand, ...

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This Guide aims to assist States in establishing or improving procedures to determine the legality of new weapons, means and methods of warfare in accordance with Article 36 of Protocol I Additional ...

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À perte de vue, sur des centaines de kilomètres, le paysage est devenu méconnaissable. Autrefois verdoyant, le sol est ...

Statement of the ICRC, read at the Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, held in Geneva from 11-16 April. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is pleased to ...