Neat stacks of colourful "kurtis" (traditional collarless long shirt) occupy most of the second-storey house that Nilufa Yeasmin occupies with her mother in Dhaka. As she browses through the latest …
The ICRC Regional delegation in New Delhi is responsible for activities carried out in India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives and also supports ICRC's global operations. To meet the needs of women, …
People with physical disabilities in Bangladesh often face societal barriers, evoking negative perceptions and discrimination. They are stigmatized and are often considered dependent. Of the total …
Humanitarians are facing increasingly complex battlefields with an "explosion of movements and organisations", the ICRC's president has told a gathering at the University of London. Speaking at last …
The Al Hol camp, in north-eastern Syria , holds over 55,000 people. It's the size of a small city. Due to intense fighting in north-eastern Syria , people have been forced to flee their homes, …
06-03-2019 Abuja (ECOWAS Community Court / ICRC) – Judges and staff of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS attended a two-day training workshop on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) on 6 March …
Working in partnership with the Nigerian Red Cross Society, the ICRC continues to ensure that those affected by armed conflict and violence in Nigeria are given the assistance, livelihood sustaining …
The ICRC and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) jointly distributed emergency relief assistance from 21 to 22 February to people displaced by ethnic violence in Eastern Ethiopia. Some 690 …
This picture is all Jessina Kokai has to remember her son. The 43-year-old mother has registered a tracing case with the ICRC to help find her son Shepherd Murambi who went missing in 2016. Jessina …
If you've come to this page, it's because you either have, are interested in, or will be entering the competition. In a nutshell, the competition calls on students at accredited universities to …
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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.
