How can drones support humanitarian operations? What type of information are they able to collect? And how can humanitarian organizations make use of their benefits - without creating new risks? To …
Fact sheet explaining what it means to implement international humanitarian law at the national level, whose responsibility it is to do so, what general measures must be adopted and how this can be …
Factsheet explaining the provisions of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). In particular, the following questions are addressed: what is the object and purpose of the ATT? To what arms does the ATT apply? …
Gillies Carbonnier, the vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), recently travelled to Honduras and El Salvador. At the end of his six-day trip, he concluded that the …
Goma (ICRC) – Following recent demonstrations and other violence around North Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 120 wounded people are being treated at Beni General …
No one can address these challenges alone, we must work together. A little over a year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world down to its knees. No country was spared the wrath, revealing how …
One year on: stories of hardships, resilience and change in times of COVID-19. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has affected everyone, everywhere, in one way or another, but not equally: it has hit …
"Wheelchair basketball has changed my life. It is helping me build my confidence and given me a sense of strength. It has become my ultimate source of happiness,” says Woubrist Getnet, a person …
"I am finally able to have my family around me after a very hard and tough phase of our lives.” How would you feel if you had not seen nor heard from a beloved member of your family for 18 good …
Suva, Fiji (ICRC) – Twenty officers from the Fiji Corrections Service who will be deployed for one year on a UN mission to South Sudan attended a pre-deployment training facilitated by 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.
