31-05-2022 Kyiv (ICRC) – A video filmed in our Mariupol office now circulating in some media is filled with false claims and baseless assumptions about the work of the International Committee of the …
This publication has two modules contained in separate volumes. The first module deals with models of care, while the second is a catalogue of functional spaces. VOLUME 2: FUNCTIONAL SPACE CATALOGUE …
This publication has two modules contained in separate volumes. The first module deals with models of care, while the second is a catalogue of functional spaces. VOLUME 2: FUNCTIONAL SPACE CATALOGUE …
This publication has two modules contained in separate volumes. The first module deals with models of care, while the second is a catalogue of functional spaces. VOLUME 1: MODELS OF CARE A model of …
S.M. can find any book in the prison library in a matter of seconds. He is an inmate at the Irmã Imelda Lima Pontes Prison in the metropolitan area of Fortaleza and ran the library there until last …
26-05-2022 Tunis (ICRC) – As summer arrives and increasing numbers of migrants risk everything to cross the Mediterranean, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling for closer …
Briefing to UN Security Council Open Debate on Protection of Civilians, delivered 25 May 2022 by Robert Mardini, Director-General, International Committee of the Red Cross. Excellencies, ladies and …
Like most of the world, Myanmar has experienced waves of COVID-19, alongside other climate and conflict related challenges. In the South-East Asian country, there is a saying for hard times when …
National IHL Committee officially established in Mozambique ! We are delighted to announce that Mozambique has taken an important step forwards in implementing and promoting international …
“When you have a home, you can close the door and feel safe inside”. This is what Reem said the day her house was demolished in 2019. Today, Reem as well as over 2,000 Palestinians face yet another …
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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.
