In August 2016, staff from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in Northern Ireland and their counterparts from the Northern Ireland branch of the British Red Cross (BRC), …
Arrival at Kitgum Between 1986 and 2006, some 75,000 people were abducted in northern Uganda. The ICRC is helping the families of those abducted to cope with their pain and move forward. Martina …
The ICRC continued to help Liberian authorities respond to humanitarian needs while strengthening the capacities of different national institutions. In 2016, we visited detainees, distributed …
The ICRC has scaled up its humanitarian response to civilians affected by armed violence in North East Nigeria. In 2016, we continue to provide food , shelter and essential household items to …
31-08-2016 Beirut (ICRC) – A conference on the fate of thousands of people who have been missing since the Lebanese civil war took place today. The event, organized by the International Committee of …
From 2016, inmates in Zimbabwe prisons will keep the cold away by wearing jerseys that they produced themselves. This follows a project jointly initiated by the ICRC and the Zimbabwe Prisons and …
Anyone can understand the grief and desolation felt when a loved one dies. But what about the crushing hurt and uncertainty when somebody just disappears? Hundreds of thousands of people are …
30-08-2016 Kiev (ICRC) – Two years after the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the problem of missing persons remains acute. At least 1,000 people have gone missing, though no exact numbers …
The disappearance of a loved one is a tragedy for their families. They live with uncertainty and anguish, unable to close this painful chapter of their lives …
The International Day of the Disappeared is marked on 30 August. But why isn't more being done to resolve the fate of so many people? For a few hours there will be news stories about the 'missing'. …
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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.
