Peter Gill is a journalist specializing in developing world affairs and author of four books. His latest, Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How foreign aid became a casualty of war …
"The possibility of something new in our past." This is how one participant described an ICRC gathering in São Paolo for relatives of people who disappeared during the military regime in Brazil …
Hostilities almost always break our unexpectedly for ordinary people, and those with a job, a home and a family have to flee for their lives. While some are luckier than others, finding relatives who …
This ICRC reference document applies to relief items purchased by the ICRC. It contains the most important references to existing international standards for requirements in: Quality Management …
Perspectives and pledges of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on the occasion of the World Humanitarian Summit On the eve of the first World Humanitarian Summit , the …
Mr Himnath Dawadi, Director General of the Prison Management Division, the jailor and other officials responsible for Dilli Bazaar prison were joined by the ICRC's Kathmandu delegation at a handover …
Life has been tough for the people of northern Mali in recent years. Harvests have failed because of drought and flooding, and two million people face food shortages. Economic turmoil has unleashed …
Buouyed by the conviction that an efficient emergency care service can play a critical role in reducing morbidity and mortality among trauma cases, the health authorities in Jammu & Kashmir State and …
13-05-2016 Juba (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross has distributed more than 370 tonnes of seed right across South Sudan, with nearly 32,000 South Sudanese families receiving seed …
Checkpoints have become an integral part of life for citizens in the front-line town of Gorlovka, in eastern Ukraine, two years into a conflict that has torn families apart and etched a line through …
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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.
