This report provides an account of the debates that took place during a meeting of international experts co-organized by the ICRC and Université Laval (Quebec) in June 2016 in Quebec. The subject …
… in Yemen". When bombs drop onto city streets; When electricity, water, health …
… time accessing health services. Life on the streets of the Sabra refugee camp, since the …
The debate surrounding cash assistance in conflict is back on the agenda this week, as Cash Week 2018 gets under way in London. A series of events and workshops are taking place across the capital, …
… the bush. Guerilla warfare takes place in the streets. New technology, including virtual …
Ghouta means "fields" in Arabic. It was an agricultural region, supplying food and furniture to Damascus and other parts of Syria. Now it's fields of rubble, concrete and twisted metal. The contrast …
Red Cross buses leave before dawn. The entire trip takes approximately twelve hours. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Alyona Synenko Relatives of detainees at a checkpoint waiting to cross. Palestinians need …
… where possible, remove dead bodies from the streets, despite the difficult conditions. … to return and see the children playing in the streets, rather than kept at home out of fear. … if it was the calm before the storm – the streets were really quiet. There was virtually …
07-12-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – The humanitarian sector’s growing use of digital and mobile technologies creates records that can be accessed and misused by third parties, potentially putting people …
In September and October, the International Committee of the Red Cross gradually resumed its regular pace of activities across Yemen: relief work but also support to health care facilities and water …
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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.
