The first thing the villagers noticed when they returned was the destruction of homes, roads and other infrastructure. “We had to return because there was no way to make a living at the camp and our …
09-08-2020 Baghdad – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement deplores violence and acts of intimidation against health workers and urges respect for all medical personnel, vehicles, and …
"I am 52 years old... or maybe 53, I'm not sure," says Haji Shahzada with a smile as he arrives in Kabul after a full day's journey by bus from Lashkar Gah, the capital city of Helmand province. Haji …
Thousands of refugees have fled to Jordan to escape the Syrian conflict. Many have endured heartbreaking ordeals in Syria—only to face more struggles as refugees in Jordan. Resettlement can be a …
Laurent Corbaz is an experienced humanitarian worker who has spent more than 30 years with the ICRC. He is currently leading the project to implement the Humanitarian Project Plan. Under the plan, …
… for women? A: For years, women had very few jobs to choose from. Though many more are now …
This three-year-old from Myitkyina, Kachin State was born with a lower limb deficiency. He was able to get a replacement for his prosthetic leg at the Myitkyina Physical Rehabilitation Centre, which …
For more than six years, the Yasynskys have lived off the flowers grown a mere few hundred meters from the front line. The science of flower farming had to be mastered from scratch in extreme …
On Sunday, August 22, Diomède was walking in the streets of Bamenda, in Cameroon, when he was attacked by armed men in the middle of the afternoon. He succumbed to his injuries the next day. While in …
… "Patients are coming, and we are doing some jobs, all the services that cannot be …
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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.
