On February 9th, the Kodok hospital received dozens of wounded people. CC BY-NC-ND / Alyona Synenko / ICRC As fighting intensified in the Upper Nile region, the ICRC surgical team in Kodok hospital …
The ICRC's Police and Gendarmerie Delegate, Mark Tony Waine, held a meeting with the African Policing Oversight Forum's (APCOF's) coordinator, Sean Tait, on 7 February 2017, in Pretoria, South …
XXV Regular Session of the General Ministerial Conference of OPANAL. Statement of Peter Maurer, President, International Committee of the Red Cross. Allow me to begin by thanking the Government of …
14-02-2017 Mexico (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, today urged governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to support the negotiations …
I am an American trainee who is committed to issues affecting vulnerable populations, such as migrants, victims of conflict, sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ+) and survivors of sexual assault. I …
I am working as the Gender and Diversity Advisor at the Human Resources department in Geneva. I have been working as a Protection delegate and programme responsible for many years in the field for …
I joined the ICRC in 1997 and served as an ICRC delegate in Afghanistan, head of sub-delegation in Rwanda and deputy head of delegation in Congo-Brazzaville. In 2000, I joined the ICRC legal division …
My name is Ellen Nohle, and I recently finished my one-year traineeship at the legal division of the ICRC. My background is in law, with a Bachelor from the University of Cambridge, after which I …
In Asia and the Pacific, the ICRC and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are helping families to restore contact when they become separated by war, disaster or …
In 2016, the ICRC continued to help the people of Ethiopia respond to the effects of drought in conflict prone areas. We provided shelter, seeds and tools to people displaced by localized violence. …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
