Clubfoot is a congenital deformity affecting nearly 200,000 children each year across the world. One or both feet are turned inward making it difficult to walk. It is estimated that 80% of those born …
On this Wednesday 3 December 2014, coinciding with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has crossed a symbolic threshold: 5,000 …
ICRC’s global family was devastated to learn of the deaths of three colleagues after several explosions rocked the airport in Aden, Yemen on 30 December. Hamid Al-Qadami, Ahmed Wazir and Saidi …
… displaced families had lost their homes and jobs. The slow pace of the response and the …
… are also more likely to be in lower-paying jobs. This can be further impacted by the fact … often need the flexibility of lower-paying jobs to account for childcare.6 Some of the … additional strain on housing, health care, jobs and schools, which can increase as the …
… or humanity. They want their lives back: jobs, functioning schools, safety for their … workers are not allowed to do their jobs. I must reinforce that aid is not a …
This bulletin contains an overview of our operations in Kenya, Djibouti, and Tanzania in 2021. In 2021, the ICRC Nairobi Regional Delegation continued its work in places of detention focusing on …
… communities get displaced and/or lose their jobs and livelihoods, and when the conflict … Wijayakumar. “We were happy to quit our jobs as labourers and go back to fishing,” he …
… work at construction sites or doing other jobs, that were traditionally reserved to men. …
Since 2014, the Lake Chad crisis has been affecting the people of Cameroon’s Extreme North region. Hundreds of thousands have fled, most of them remaining inside the country. In 2016, people 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.
