"It took Africa nearly five months to hit 500,000 COVID-19 cases, but about a month to double that number. Most of these cases are in South Africa, but around the continent we are seeing the virus …
Luzan Jubeh Luzan, who is eight-years-old and lives in Jerusalem, dreams of becoming an engineer. “I want to become an engineer to create buildings and make the world a beautiful place. I will fulfil …
In October, 2016, Helen Durham, Director of International Law and Policy at the ICRC, talked about some most heated IHL issues when interviewed in Beijing. What does the IHL say about terrorism? …
… society growing – education for its children, jobs for its adults, security for its most …
13-09-2022 Geneva (ICRC/IFRC) – The warning lights are flashing on high: armed conflict, climate-related emergencies, economic hardship and political obstacles are leading to a growing wave of hunger …
Millions of people in the north-east of Syria are coping with fighting, destroyed infrastructure and lack of critical basic services, on top of the global COVID-19 crisis that has also hit the …
… as proof that the nurses have done their jobs properly especially during …
In the first eleven months of 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recorded a 50 per cent increase in children treated for cerebral palsy (CP) in Kabul, as compared to the …
… with a devastating domino effect on people’s jobs and income. Almost 90 per cent of …
"When the prisoners of war finally saw the plane, and they went up, that's when the excitement got a little bit contagious. It was just something you couldn't envision, people being prisoners 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.
