… people benefited from the work of the ICRC during 2014. This reflects our commitment to … project, access to water, psychosocial care, to mention but a few. Last year, this … victims of sexual violence who go to health facilities are forced to comply with …
… / Bogotá (ICRC) – Colombians are still suffering the consequences of the conflict and other … as contact with their families and access to health care. Certain humanitarian issues will remain …
… While the ICRC was working on the publication of the first … sent National Societies and Governments five "Information Notes", entitled "Replies of the International Committee of the Red Cross to …
… for their national specificities, in developing effective domestic legal … obligations for protecting the provision of health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies. …
… 2014 marked the 150th birthday of the original Geneva Convention. So for the last two … The First World War Women and war Health care in danger Protecting prisoners …
… 18-12-2014 Cairo (ICRC) – Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross … in cooperation with Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population, held a conference for … implications of violence against health-care workers and facilities and to promote …
… of Libya have just concluded a two-day training course supported by the ICRC in surgery … The ICRC has provided supplies for over 20 health-care facilities in the country since July. …
… 12-12-2014 As winter deepens, the ICRC is stepping up its … over 15 US dollars) have been distributed. Health care Wound-dressing materials, surgical items, …
… New York, 11 December 2014. Improved coordination mechanisms, the development of … direct attacks on civilians (including health-care personnel), and massive destruction of …
… has passed legislation aimed at protecting the red cross and red crescent emblems in … law. In addition, in connection with its "Health Care in Danger" campaign, it has organized a …
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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.
