At the lone kindergarten in Tezekend village of Aghdam district, Azerbaijan, a child runs excitedly to hug her favourite swing in the playground, while a few older children from the neighbourhood …
The International Committee of the Red Cross in DR Congo promotes respect for international humanitarian law and helps people affected by conflict and violence to meet their needs, often in …
“I came from Bambari on a journey that took seven months by foot,” said Alhaj Jibril, a 32-year-old father of 10, who arrived in Sudan in early this year. He is one of the thousands of people who …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) jointly organized a round-table dialogue in Chattogram on 22 August that focused on the importance …
27-09-2022 Gaza – A new online survey conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) found that 9 out of 10 young people from Gaza who took the survey believe their lives are …
Since 2015, the ICRC Kuala Lumpur has been partnering with local universities to organize the IHL role play competition , which is designed to take International Humanitarian Law (IHL) out of the …
The humanitarian situation in Northeast Syria is untenable: basic conditions are deteriorating both inside and outside of camps and places of detention. As of mid-2022, more than 58,000 people remain …
Dear Madam, Sir, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is pleased to launch an Request for Interest to pre-qualify for an upcoming restricted tender in connection with the following …
It's just another workday for Hyeon-Geun Lee. He visits a detention facility on the outskirts of Metro Manila in the Philippines and along with several other colleagues from the International …
To commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared (IDOD), a group of families in Aita and Siwai, Bougainville honoured the lives of their loved ones who went missing during the Bougainville …
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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.
