With more than 81,000 disappearances reported in Brazil last year, the Brasilia Regional Delegation continues its work to highlight the long-term impact of disappearance on families, advocating for …
Each year on 30 August, the International Day of the Disappeared honours the countless people who have gone missing through conflict, migration and natural disasters — and the families who face the …
29-08-2025 Geneva, 30 August 2025 - The number of people registered as missing by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement worldwide has increased by nearly 70 per cent over the past …
Dealing with frozen grief While it is very painful to contend with the tragic loss of a loved one, most people develop their own coping mechanisms to deal with the grief caused by death. However, …
In a series of online articles, the ICRC team for the UK and Ireland interviews delegates working across the world. This month, we spoke to William Carmichael, from County Antrim in Northern Ireland, …
27-08-2025 Nairobi (ICRC) – Over 82,000 people across Africa are registered as missing with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC figures show that the conflict in Sudan has …
JUBA (ICRC) – Nyakol (not her real name) struggled to reconstruct the last moments with her brother just before explosives rocked her neighborhood in Malakal, Upper Nile State, in May 2014. The …
Nasser Medical Complex (NMC) is one of the last major hospitals still operating in southern Gaza. It provides critical and specialized medical care to thousands of patients in an area where few …
Rafah, Gaza Strip - 9 May 2024 to 31 July 2025 Over the past 15 months, the Red Cross Field Hospital (RFH) in Rafah has delivered vital medical care under challenging conditions and a swiftly …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been active in Azerbaijan since 1992, addressing humanitarian needs stemming from conflict. For more than three decades, the ICRC has …
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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.
