This document is both a general framework for integrating climate risk into ICRC operations and a guidance document to support delegations preparing their Planning for Results. It will enable …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organization working to safeguard the lives and dignity of people suffering from conflict and …
11-08-2023 WAD MADANI, Sudan (11.08.2023) - In collaboration with the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has distributed essential food …
Kinshasa (ICRC) – Since the start of 2023, an escalation in the fighting between armed groups in North Kivu province has displaced some 600,000 people*. Our teams in the field have observed an …
The handbook is intended for commanders of military units (battalions and companies) whose troops are involved in or about to embark on law enforcement operations where domestic law and international …
The local scenario and the Safer Access methodology from ICRC Jaqueline Naibert, a nurse at a Health Unit in Porto Alegre (State of Rio Grande do Sul), makes a home visit to Ivone de Fátima Soares de …
Once a joyful and beautiful place where children played and families enjoyed normal days, surrounded by lush nature, traditional homes, livestock and farms, many areas of Kachin State in Myanmar have …
Armed conflicts can have a devastating impact on the environment, and the environmental consequences of conflict in turn threaten people's health and livelihoods. States met to discuss in 2023. …
A sewing machine, an electric iron, an ironing board, a table to cut fabric, a pair of scissors, some needles and threads – these are a few of Svetlana’s favourite things. What may look like common …
Today, it will be 78 years since an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The impact of a single bomb was unimaginably catastrophic. It devastated the city and the death toll …
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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.
