ICRC launches family links website in Arabic
… Cross has launched an Arabic version of its Restoring Family Links website www.familylinks.icrc.org , to …
Skip to main content
Search results
Sri Lanka: A sustained commitment
… persons and their representatives such as family associations. While in the country, Mr … that the dead may be given back their names, restoring their dignity and honour, and may be … Supported the SLRCS in maintaining family links for migrants (both Sri Lankans living …
Nepal earthquake: People’s first need is to know fate of loved ones
… the ICRC concentrates on the restoration of family links, the management of the dead and … in order to support NRCS specialists in restoring family links. Management of the dead …
Cameroon: Safer Access to people affected by conflict
… training 10 Red Cross volunteers in restoring family links; training nine Red Cross volunteers in …
Pakistan: Overjoyed father hears son's voice again
… broke down in tears. "I had wanted to give my family a better, safer life. But on the way to … Germany. His photo was already posted on the Restoring Family Links website, the online tracing platform of …
Horn of Africa: New effort to reunite families caught up in South Sudan violence
… in South Sudan. A new web page ( http://familylinks.icrc.org/south-sudan ) has been set up … in the region have been very active in restoring family links among the refugees. …
Eritrea: Facts and Figures 2014
… order to strengthen the Tracing/Maintaining Family Links capacity of the Movement in the country, … ICRC Team in Asmara Financial support and family-link services Eritrean The ICRC has …
Overview of ICRC activities in Lebanon since 1967
… relief supplies, health-care services and restoring family links. 1976 With more people affected by the …
Thailand: 2014 highlights from the region
… humanitarian law (IHL) promotion, family-links services and emergency response. It … ICRC REGIONAL DELEGATION BANGKOK RESTORING FAMILY LINKS (RFL) Cambodian RC …
Mexico: Challenges to international humanitarian law and humanitarian action
… move along into urban centers, too close to family homes, hospitals and schools. New … person being considered missing by his or her family and causes high levels of anguish and … has been aimed at helping to restore family links, which is one more of the lines of …
Didn’t find what you were looking for?
Try one of the following resources:
ICRC library
Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
IHL treaties
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 IHL
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.