… Atbara, Sudan Nearly two years into the armed conflict in Sudan, the country's health system is on the brink of collapse. … or destroyed. The toll on patients and caregivers is staggering. In many of the …
… In 2024, the humanitarian situation in … to their relatives and their whereabouts. Health care: Another casualty of the armed conflict …
… In 2024, the humanitarian situation in … or confined, and the severity of attacks on health workers. All these reached levels not … by armed actors for military purposes or to care for the wounded. This occupation by armed …
… Anti-personnel landmines do not discriminate. Buried in fields, … by cutting them off from safe access to health care, education, and farmland. They delay …
… Strengthening partnerships for sustainable humanitarian … their skills in areas such as first aid, health care, protection, economic security, project …
… 17-19 February 2025 The opening speech was given by Dr Gilles Carbonnier, … has happened to their missing loved ones, health facilities destroyed with no medical care available, or children killed or maimed …
… In 2024, the humanitarian situation in Myanmar … of food and clean water, limited access to healthcare and education, restrictions on movement, …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross … humanitarian response and an ambitious yet careful reinforcing of services in line with … by helping people to meet their basic health care and physical rehabilitation. It …
… January to December 2024 In 2024, families in South Sudan continued to … Raised awareness and provided mental health and psychosocial support services to … a wide range of services, including health care, emergency relief, physical …
… to December 2024 The ICRC has been conducting its humanitarian operations in Ethiopia … Oromia and Tigray. In 2024, assisting health facilities that treated individuals … 756,900 persons provided with curative care and free hospital services. 7,500 …
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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.
