01-10-2016 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has urged communities in PNG affected by tribal conflict to respect and protect health services at all times. ICRC …
… an important aspect of helping them do their jobs efficiently and with safety. To discuss …
Four photographers show the devastating impact of urban displacement in their own countries. Internal displacement is at an unprecedented global peak. The number of people forcibly displaced within …
In a crowded pen made of thorny shrub brushes and twigs, a herder pulls away a sheep and holds it long enough for Saamiya Mohamed to inject it with a dose of vitamins and anti-parasitic medicine. The …
… are supporting the family by doing odd jobs: collecting firewood, making bricks, and …
The vocational training center in Mafraq, a Jordanian city of around 60,000 inhabitants near the border with Syria, is abuzz with the rhythmic sound of sewing machines. On the day we visited, five …
… need to be cleared of unexploded ammunition. Jobs and other sources of income need to be …
… out of school, and force them to find jobs.” Asim Rafiqui/NOOR for ICRC Daisy …
… and managed to survive by taking menial jobs for food and shelter in the villages on …
06-11-2018 Organized jointly by the Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment and the International Committee of the Red Cross Baghdad (ICRC) – A nationwide public awareness campaign entitled Health …
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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.
