Iligan: Regular and adequate supply of clean drinking water has long been a luxury that over 1,700 residents of far-flung Kalilangan village in Iligan could not enjoy. Facing frequent displacement …
Present in Niger since 1990, the ICRC protects and assists people affected by the consequences of armed conflict or other situations of violence, particularly in Liptako-Gourma and the Lake Chad …
“I was in Grade 4 when the fight broke out. There was a lot of disruption to classes. Shortly after that, I stayed for a year and six months without going to school. I really want to go to school, I …
Geneva (ICRC) - During a visit to Moscow over the past two days, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, raised the importance of upholding …
What level of human suffering in armed conflict is tolerable? Does the current environment make space for the human protection and international humanitarian law (IHL) safeguards? These are some of …
As cases of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea grip Lebanon, supporting public infrastructure is essential to avoid devastating health and humanitarian consequences. Joe Mclean, from County Mayo in …
18-01-2023 Geneva (ICRC) - ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric is visiting Moscow this week to discuss urgent humanitarian concerns with government officials and the Russian Red Cross. The 2-day visit …
Consequences of armed conflict and other violence can be severe in cities, especially in situations of protracted urban warfare and urban violence – We have seen it in Colombia, Honduras, Libya, the …
16-01-2023 Mexico City. Five years ago the Missing Persons Act entered into force on the back of unprecedented citizen action in Mexico led by the families of missing people. The regional delegation …
Surgical procedures and trauma are a shock to the body and provoke a metabolic stress response, which impacts the patient’s nutritional status by inducing changes in how all nutrients are metabolized …
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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.
