The World Humanitarian Summit, taking place on 23-24 May 2016 in Istanbul, will bring together for the first time ever all internatonal humanitarian stakeholders to discuss and reshape humanitarian …
Fighting left the hospital in the northern Malian town of Gao in a state of chaos and unable to provide care, just when victims of the clashes were most in need of emergency treatment. With support …
11-01-2016 Damascus / Geneva – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working alongside the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the United Nations (UN), has begun delivering vital aid …
Five years ago, 25-year-old Issa* left Guinea in the hope of finding a better life in Europe. Instead of leading him to the land of his dreams, however, his journey across Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, …
Philippine Red Cross staff and volunteers carry a wounded comrade during the Zamboanga Stand-Off In this shared experience, the Philippine Red Cross recounts the challenges it encountered and how it …
Fadimata Zahara Cissé, affectionately known as Azahara, has been an ICRC nurse in Gao, northern Mali , for over five years. She is a key member of the team delivering surgical care at Gao hospital. …
The ICRC recently helped the Liberian authorities fumigate Monrovia Central Prison against bed bugs. This is part of our support to prison authorities in their efforts to improve conditions for …
by Dominik Stillhart, director of operations for the ICRC In a year that saw millions of lives torn apart by armed conflict and violence across the globe, indiscriminate attacks against civilians, …
Armed conflict and crime are taking their toll on civilians in northern Mali . For people wounded in the fighting, like Assouman Ag Bilal (pictured), medical treatment provided by the ICRC is …
On 11 January, a joint convoy together with the ICRC, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the UN brought desperately needed aid to people living in the besieged towns of Madaya, Foua and Kefraya. UPDATE …
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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.
