The U.N declaration of famine in South Sudan and fears of famine in Somalia steal the headlines, but many in Ethiopia and Kenya are suffering, too. The Kenyan government estimates that 14,000 …
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), supported by the ICRC, has started distributing food assistance to more than 19,000 people. These people from Myanmar's Rakhine state have been residing …
Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), the procedure that renders explosive material safe, evokes images of wires, explosives, protective equipment and delicate procedures. Real-life training for such …
In 2014, the ICRC started assisting refugees flowing out of the East of Ukraine into Russia due to the ongoing conflict . Many of those displaced had left behind their homes to start from scratch in …
By Raad Al-Husban Today, on Palestinian Prisoners day, my thoughts go to the thousands of detainees we visit in Israeli places of detention. I am also troubled by the gap between the expectations …
Gambella, Ethiopia (ICRC) – A tribal raid four years ago saw then-8-year-old Luke Chan* taken from his family and moved across the border into South Sudan. The child was forced to work in a cattle …
Since the onset of the conflict in Syria in 2011, hundreds of thousands of people have taken refuge in Jordan. Throughout 2016, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Jordan …
13-04-2017 Beirut, Lebanon. Forty-two years after the civil war began in Lebanon, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on the Lebanese authorities to pass a law that will help …
From a German doctor to a Finnish nurse, medical workers from all over the globe are coming together to help the existing healthcare structure at Rozhawa Hospital in Erbil, Iraq. Among the patients …
The 4-year-old boy went from mildly ill to dead in less than 12 hours. The village residents nod knowingly of the cause: There is no food in this isolated community on the Kenyan coast, and the only …
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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.
