The road travelled by those arriving at the Migrant Receiving Station in La Peñita, Panama, is long and dangerous enough, yet migrants still have several borders and thousands more kilometres ahead …
14-05-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appointed two new members, Suba Umathevan and Rémy Best. Suba Umathevan was born in Sri Lanka. When …
Since middle of March 2020, the ICRC, while maintaining its conflict related humanitarian activities, also started to ramp up its response to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Libya . Working with …
The health and well-being of detainees can be a constant worry for their loved ones at the best of times. Imagine how much worse this must be when a pandemic such as COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm …
13-05-2020 Juba (ICRC) – The mortuary at Juba Teaching Hospital, the largest in South Sudan, has been renovated with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to help …
This story is about the coexistence of hope and despair, dreams and reality, children and the conflict. And who better to tell it than the children themselves? Here's Satenik, one of the kids who …
12-05-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The 2020 Florence Nightingale Medal pays tribute to nursing staff who put themselves on the line to care for others while working in the most dangerous conditions. 12 May …
What does it mean to be a nurse today? We asked four nurses to share their experiences and explain how COVID-19 is impacting their work. Natasha Moon, head nurse, Maiduguri, Nigeria We're an …
Myrtle Sammy is one of five registered nurses in Papua New Guinea who was sponsored by the ICRC to study midwifery. After graduating top of her class, she now looks to share her knowledge and skills …
Within the context of its on-going efforts to ensure that an outbreak of COVID-19 is prevented in correctional facilities in Jordan, the ICRC provided personal hygiene items for inmates and …
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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.
