Kabul (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned by the recent announcement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) suspending with immediate effect the women's …
After surviving an explosion, and experiencing a double amputation, Khadijah Modu Abdullahi is walking again. For Khadijah Modu Abdullahi, this story began when the vehicle her family were travelling …
The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) bagged the top prize at the national rounds of the 14th Henry Dunant Moot Court Competition on international humanitarian law (IHL) organized by …
Humanity in Action provides an at-a-glance guide to how we helped and protected victims of armed conflict and other violence in 2021. It provides facts and figures on our programmes around the world …
Geneva (ICRC) – The office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Donetsk was hit by shelling, damaging the building and several vehicles. No ICRC personnel were killed or injured. …
21-12-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – More than 3,400 people detained in relation with the conflict in Yemen were visited by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2022, humanitarian action that …
The year 2022 has been filled with unprecedented massive humanitarian needs arising from the effects of armed conflict, climate shocks and rising food and energy prices. The Russia-Ukraine …
19-12-2022 As the AU marks its 20th anniversary, there are still challenges in adhering to IHL norms and principles regardless of the positive progress in putting in place applicable frameworks. In …
Marie, a mother of four, is an asylum seeker from the DRC, she fled her home city of Goma in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following an attack. She was separated from her biological family …
The third episode of "The Humanitarian Podcast", featuring Muhammad Iqbal, disability inclusion adviser of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Pakistan, explores how people with …
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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.
