As cases of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea grip Lebanon, supporting public infrastructure is essential to avoid devastating health and humanitarian consequences. Joe Mclean, from County Mayo in …
What level of human suffering in armed conflict is tolerable? Does the current environment make space for the human protection and international humanitarian law (IHL) safeguards? These are some of …
Geneva (ICRC) - During a visit to Moscow over the past two days, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, raised the importance of upholding …
“I was in Grade 4 when the fight broke out. There was a lot of disruption to classes. Shortly after that, I stayed for a year and six months without going to school. I really want to go to school, I …
Present in Niger since 1990, the ICRC protects and assists people affected by the consequences of armed conflict or other situations of violence, particularly in Liptako-Gourma and the Lake Chad …
Iligan: Regular and adequate supply of clean drinking water has long been a luxury that over 1,700 residents of far-flung Kalilangan village in Iligan could not enjoy. Facing frequent displacement …
25-01-2023 Nasiriyah (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) inaugurates office in Nasiriyah, to provide further support to affected populations on physical rehabilitation, mine …
Sa’ada (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today inaugurated a new Physical Rehabilitation Centre in Sa’ada, Yemen. The newly built facility, which will primarily be staffed …
Niamey (ICRC) - Over a decade into the crisis, conflict in the Lake Chad Basin shows no signs of abating. Violence against the civilian population remains alarmingly high, leaving more than 11 …
The armed conflict has limited communities' access to health care in Cabo Delgado, forcing families to walk long distances and then sit on the ground for a long time while waiting to be seen, while …
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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.
