by the ICRC Brussels delegation The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the …
The Florence Nightingale Medal is awarded to nurses who display exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster or to those who display exemplary service in the …
Networking can be nerve-wracking for anyone. But imagine trying to network in another language, in a different country, amid ongoing conflict... Charlie Dorman O’Gowan explains the challenges and …
… still need education, adults still need jobs. People's needs are many-sided: they are …
Neutrality provides us with the ability to try and influence both sides to act in accordance with the laws of war This Opinion by Julien Lerisson was originally published on Haaretz The first phase …
The town of El Callao in Venezuela is famous not only for its carnival and brightly dressed madamas, but also for being the centre of the mining industry in the south of the country, and especially …
… the city. People lost their homes and their jobs, and many were not able to secure an …
Conflict and violence continue to devastate the lives of hundreds of thousands of Afghan people. In 2015, we provided basic aid, such as clean water and medical care, to those most in need across …
Kinshasa (ICRC) – Since the start of 2023, an escalation in the fighting between armed groups in North Kivu province has displaced some 600,000 people*. Our teams in the field have observed an …
Addressing Violence Against Health Care in Peshawar, a research report compiled by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in collaboration with Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar, …
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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.
