14-09-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – Increasing violence in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger has led to a 62 per cent spike in deaths and more than a million [1] people being forced to flee their homes over the …
… on people's farms and engaged in menial jobs to get paid." With this support, Saleh …
On the 14th of December 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formally opened a newly constructed dormitory annexed to the Physical Rehabilitation Centre of Benghazi, east of …
… are daily labourers or engaged in irregular jobs with meagre income that cannot even feed …
Luang Prabang (ICRC) – Twenty-four experts from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Viet Nam gathered in Luang Prabang today to discuss national policies and best practices that could benefit people injured …
One month after cyclone Komen and heavy seasonal rains caused floods and landslides in Myanmar, recovery work has started. The ICRC and Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) are distributing food and …
"Would you believe me if I said that I feel jealous when I see parents visiting the graves of their sons? I keep asking myself: 'don't I deserve even this?'" Ashot's* son fought in last year's …
Amir Khan, Ahmadullah and Mohammad Halim are familiar with hard times. Living through the death of their loved ones, loss of all their belongings, financial crunch and displacement from their homes, …
Struggle for a better future: Overcoming crippling unemployment in Gaza and West Bank The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is happy to announce 2019 edition of its photo competition. …
… is struggling and there are fewer and fewer jobs and functioning businesses. No family and … is struggling and there are fewer and fewer jobs and functioning businesses. We contacted …
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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.
