On this Women’s Day, we bring to you the story of Chawan Muhammed, a 33-year-old from Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She serves as an inspiration to her peers as she continues to support her …
… 1,800 people worldwide will lose their jobs in the coming months. This figure does … in June What will staff who lose their jobs be entitled to? We will do as much as we …
… who, like Mohan, are already engaged in jobs and projects but make themselves …
Gérard is 13 years old. He was separated from his parents and then his brother when a wave of violence swept through Burundi in April 2015. He is now a refugee in Rwanda. I used sit alone and wonder …
Bryan*, an 18-year-old detainee at the General Santos City Jail in South Cotabato, Philippines, had a simple desire – he wanted to somehow contact his adoptive mother and tell her, "Do not worry. I …
Bryan*, an 18-year-old detainee at the General Santos City Jail in South Cotabato, Philippines, had a simple desire – he wanted to somehow contact his adoptive mother and tell her, "Do not worry. I …
… In our seven years together, he took odd jobs. Months before we last saw him, he worked … house in 2015. Even with all her additional jobs, her family still struggled to find money …
In 2017, just a few weeks after an armed conflict broke out in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, Princess Joy Maulana – nicknamed PJae – looked at the chaotic scene before her. A registered nurse working …
In an emergency, giving people money is often the best way to help them. So long as people have access to markets that are functioning, cash enables them to make their own decisions about what they …
… also causes loss of livelihoods. For safety, jobs are left behind. Some of those who left …
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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.
