Tehran (The International Committee of the Red Cross Delegation in Tehran and the Iranian Red Crescent Society) - The ICRC Delegation in Iran and the IRCS jointly announced that a second donation of …
Astan Agrba, Sukhum/i “As an archaeologist I have gained invaluable practical experience with the ICRC in exhuming human remains. The process includes searching for potential burial sites, proper …
In mid-November, after the first week of clashes in northern Ethiopia, an ICRC team traveled to North Amhara and West Tigray. In this account, Wilson Mondal, field team leader, describes what they …
This implementation guideline is part 1 of the review of remote data collection carried out to assess food security and economic vulnerability. The review – commissioned by the Economic Security Unit …
South Africa is a major destination and transit country for migrants from the Eastern and Southern Africa regions and beyond. Though the Southern African route receives far less public attention than …
The Road Map - two years later In July 2018, the ICRC officially launched its five-year strategy pertaining to 10,281 persons still missing as a consequence of the armed conflicts in the Western …
The ICRC Belgrade Regional Delegation recently donated a vehicle to the Belgrade Delegation to the Working Group (WG) on the Missing in Relation to the Events in Kosovo. The donation is aimed at …
Sexual violence is often the 'silent crime' of armed conflicts, leaving largely invisible scars that too often go unnoticed. For practitioners and researchers alike, how we talk and think about …
Even wars have limits. They are defined by International Humanitarian Law which obliges protection of all people not taking part in the conflict, as well as limiting the means and methods of warfare. …
The overall goal of the ICRC’s first-aid support program is to ensure that during emergencies (wars, conflict and/or other situations of violence), wounded and acutely sick people benefit from …
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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.
