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2019 ICRC report on IHL and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts

… and nutrition and that members of the same family are not separated. 16 ICTY, Prosecutor … The ICRC also uses digital tools to restore family links and, if pos‑ sible, to facilitate …

Law and policy topic

Humanitarian emergencies, international humanitarian law and security risk management in the Asia Pacific

… population movements in the region is that family members often get separated or go … up in detention. The ICRC seeks to restore family links and offer its services to address the …

Statement
ICRC Vice President at the 9th Beijing Xiangshan Forum

The ICRC biometrics policy

… respect to forensics and the restoration of family links. As new technology provides new … the purposes of DNA profiling to facilitate family reunification or determining the fate …

Article

Bahamas after Dorian: Volunteer reconnects pregnant wife with husband and children

… But help was at hand. Using the Red Cross's Restoring Family Links service, volunteer Janet Lundy kept …

Article

Voices from the Field

… Technical expert and internal referent on restoring family links, Colombian Red Cross Society Monowara …

Event

Egypt: Facts and figures, January – December 2018

… Red Cross and Crescent Movement’s Family Links Services and extended into the field of … to the Annual Workshop held for the ERC ‘Restoring Family Links’ focal points that took …

Article

Nigeria’s missing: “I feel it in my heart that my daughter is still alive”

… Others may be people detained without their family knowing of their whereabouts. … four months ago. Mustapha is using the ICRC's restoring family links service, which seeks to reunite people …

Law and policy topic

South Asia: Asian faces in the field

… ICRC is the place to be. Yubaraj Adhikari, restoring family links delegate  Yubaraj Adhikari has been with …

Law and policy topic

South Sudan: Thousands missing because of conflict and violence

… loved ones. "Each of these cases represents a family who is searching and living with the … looking for their missing relatives, The Family Links Network of the International Red Cross …

News release

Samson and Sampinya: Reunited after 44 years apart

… a few weeks ago, it lived up to its name as a family who had been separated for 44 years … The Ndou family pictured with the ICRC's Restoring Family Links field officer Unita Ndou after 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.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.