Yacoob Idriss'* story is like that of many other children living in the Lake Chad region. One morning, armed men attacked his village, Doron Baga, in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno. They …
Geneva (ICRC) – The 12th meeting of the coordination mechanism seeking to account for people who went missing in connection with the conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 and their aftermath took …
Facts and figures The armed conflict in north-east Nigeria has had devastating humanitarian consequences for millions of people across the Lake Chad region. More than two million people have been …
The ICRC funded a public project that provided a month's salary for 1,000 impoverished people as part of its cash-for-work programme. Emmanuel now has enough money to continue paying for his …
10-02-2018 Abuja/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today facilitated the handover – from the armed opposition to the Nigerian military – of ten women police officers …
©ICRC On 11 February 2018, the ICRC and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) jointly organized a side-event entitled the 'Cyber Dimension of Humanitarian Action …
11-02-2018 Sana'a/Aden/Geneva (ICRC) – In an important breakthrough that will allow many families to know the fate of missing loved ones, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has just …
In Armenia, the ICRC focuses on civilians living in exposed communities along the international border, missing people and their families, mine victims and people deprived of their liberty. We also …
Before starting their practical exercises, trainees receive a briefing from John Sorbo, the ICRC’s regional weapon contamination manager. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Alemayehu Takele Trainees rehearse …
In 2017, the ICRC continued to help the most vulnerable people affected by the conflict , residing along the contact line in Donbas. We provided food, water, hygiene products and other basic …
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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.
