20-01-2017 Abuja (ICRC) - Three days after air strikes at a settlement for internally displaced people at Rann in Nigeria, two surgical teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
… is struggling and there are fewer and fewer jobs and functioning businesses. No family and … is struggling and there are fewer and fewer jobs and functioning businesses. We contacted …
"Would you believe me if I said that I feel jealous when I see parents visiting the graves of their sons? I keep asking myself: 'don't I deserve even this?'" Ashot's* son fought in last year's …
Thirty-nine-year-old Afghan construction worker Nick Mohammad (a resident of Faizabad in Badakhshan province), who spent a part of his life as a migrant worker in Iran, returned to Afghanistan seven …
14-11-2017 Dakar/Geneva (ICRC) – The precarious security situation in Africa's Sahel region is overshadowing a massive humanitarian crisis affecting 12 million people in five countries, the …
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the independent evaluation of the ICRC learning culture. Conducted from June 2023 through April 2024, this evaluation supported the ICRC’s …
The ICRC is a neutral, impartial and independent organization, whose humanitarian mission is to protect and assist people affected by armed conflict, and to promote respect for international …
―"Go for it!" This was Isangeli's husband´s response when she asked him what he thought about her training to become a baker. She had been keen to learn for a while, but didn't have the money to pay …
19-02-2019 "The Missing" is the humanitarian organization's first collaboration with NBC News' experimental video unit, NBC Left Field The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and NBC News …
In November 2014, a team of eight young field officers embarked on a journey across Sri Lanka. Their mission was to locate 392 families (out of 16,000) whose loved ones went missing during the …
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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.
