The east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a scene of repeated armed clashes, which have forced thousands of families to flee their homes. Being accepted in another community and finding a …
Fatima gets to meet her husband Abdul for only one week every year. While she is in Zamboanga, he is in Manila – both opposite ends of the country of Philippines . Abdul was detained in September …
International Humanitarian Law at the National Level: Impact and Role ofNational Committees International Humanitarian Law at the National Level: Impact and Role ofNational Committees 12.8.2003 15:31 …
Facts and Figures: January to June 2019 The ICRC has been present in Ethiopia since the beginning of the 1977 Ethio-Somalia armed conflict. Today, our major activities in the country include visiting …
A strange-looking object caught the attention of seven-year-old Saw Khu Thauy and his nine-year-old friend. But little did they know that what seemed like a toy was in fact an unexploded ordnance …
On 20 June 2019, Academicians, journalists, and humanitarian professionals came together in Dhaka to discuss the challenges and relevance of international humanitarian law (IHL) and customary law …
Lucie Florance and her mother fled from Tshikapa in the DRC to Angola when armed violence broke out. Not long after their arrival, her mother fell ill and died, leaving the 11-year-old alone. Since …
The 5th Commonwealth Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) was a commemoration of 70 years of the Geneva Conventions as much as a forum to deliberate on …
During 2019, the ICRC expanded its operations in the country in order to respond to the most urgent needs of the Venezuelan population in an impartial, neutral and independent manner, in cooperation …
Story by Mari Aftret Mortvedt, ICRC The Al Hol camp in Syria is filled with children , mostly from Syria , but there are faces from every continent. In fact, two-thirds of the 70,000 people living in …
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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.
