Internal displacement is an increasingly urban phenomenon. This is partly because in a quickly urbanizing world, when cities become sites of armed conflict and other violence, greater numbers are …
Ensuring assistance and protection addresses the needs of marginalized and at-risk people. This paper brings together guidance and messages from the ICRC's Operations Diversity Inclusion, Sexual …
27-03-2020 Geneva, 27 March 2020 –-The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has launched a revised emergency appeal for 800 million Swiss francs to help the world's most vulnerable …
Governments around the world are quickly implementing measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 and protect their citizens. Many governments are setting up quarantine centres and their armed forces …
26-03-2020 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on 26 March 2020 launched a revised emergency appeal for 800 million Swiss francs (823 million US dollars) to help the world's most …
The coronavirus pandemic disease (COVID-19) is unprecedented in recent history and is spreading rapidly. It is not only a public health crisis, but also a humanitarian crisis in the making. In …
As COVID-19 focuses the world’s attention on infectious diseases, we have our eyes on one of the most dangerous places for the spread of such outbreaks: prisons, where densely packed people and …
To be a doctor, one has multiple challenges to overcome. To be a woman doctor in Pakistan , what else would it take ? Talking about their work, and the paths that led to operating in the ER, …
"I have walked on a journey to hell, lost and stripped of everything," says Warame Pokana, slowly reliving the details of July 2019 as she has done many times over in her mind. The slash marks on her …
For the last two years, Freya Raddi has overseen the ICRC's assistance programmes in Yemen. As she finishes her mission, the aid worker says she wants to return to Yemen one day, but not as a …
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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.
