Every morning at 8am, Fatuma Ibrahim prepares for her usual rounds of trekking from house to house selling Baati and Garbasaar – a traditional Somali cotton dress and head scarf. This has been her …
The ICRC's 22nd course in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) for humanitarian professionals and policy makers is designed to acquaint participants with the international rules, principles and …
16-03-2018 Muscat (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a four day course on war surgery in partnership with the Omani Ministry of Health. Over 50 Omani surgeons and …
My visit to Syria this week reinforces my view that wars across the region have reached a frightening new normal. Tit-for-tat battles of retribution increase in intensity with no regard for their …
Two-year-old Raziais was admitted to the Therapeutic Feeding Unit, at Mirwais Regional Hospital. She is one of the many children in the hospital undergoing treatment for severe malnutrition. CC …
We had wanted to do something different this year on International Women's Day, so we contacted several associations in Bangui supporting women with disabilities and proposed a morning's exchange on …
''Somebody hold my hand,'' shouted Abdullah, a 23 year old internally displaced person (IDP), as he roamed through his village in South Kordofan, amidst the sound of gunshots and the smell of smoke, …
In August 2017, the ICRC and the Burundi Red Cross reached an accord with Burundi's Ministry of Health and began providing support to four health centres located in the Kamenge, Buterere II, Kinindo …
Facts and figures for 2017 Doris Kapula lost her husband and their house during an election-related conflict between the Amala and Teremanda tribes in Wabag, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. "Life …
Facts and figures for 2017 In 2017, the ICRC continued to support families of missing persons to cope with psychological and social difficulties by helping to address their needs of legal and …
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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.
