A hospital is more than a building. Its protection is not just about erecting perimeter fences and installing bullet-proof windows. The safety and well-being of personnel, both physical and mental, …
Mary Allison Cook lost the use of her legs when she was only three years old. But being in a wheelchair has never been a disability for Mary. "I grew up using a wheelchair and not having the use of …
Queues of several kilometres are common at the Berezovoe checkpoint in Donbas region. Until recently, people waiting to cross the demarcation line were using nearby bushes as toilets, unaware of the …
"I may have a disability, but it's not an inability to play the game I love – cricket," says Shafiqullah Samim, an all-rounder with the Afghanistan Physically Disabled Cricket team. "At the 5-nation …
30,000 people in Donetsk and Lugansk regions received food 10,000 people in Donetsk and Luhansk regions received construction materials, such as cement, bricks, timber and roofing, to help repair …
Patients are not just fitted with prostheses at the Weapon Traumatology & Training Centre (WTTC) in Tripoli, Lebanon, they also receive psychosocial support to help address the trauma they have …
Millions of people live behind bars. Whatever the reason for their imprisonment, they have the right to be held in humane conditions, free from ill-treatment and torture. The ICRC has been working in …
Published by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime with contributions from the ICRC, the handbook provides holistic and practical guidance on how to avoid overcrowding, to address it where it already …
In recent years, a wide array of new technologies have entered the modern battlefield, giving rise to new means and methods of warfare, such as cyber attacks, armed drones and robots, including …
This WHO publication, to which the ICRC contributed, outlines important suggestions by international experts to improve the health of those in prison and to reduce both the health risks and risks to …
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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.
