15 October 2015, Juba - Today marks Global Handwashing Day. Sadly, the challenges in South Sudan have gone beyond mere handwashing with a cholera outbreak that has had a devastating effect on many in …
After successfully conducting it in diverse contexts for 30 years, the ICRC is launching its flagship course – the Health Emergencies in Large Populations (H.E.L.P.) course – in India in October …
The ICRC's work in Afghanistan focuses on visiting detainees to monitor their lives conditions and treatment, providing basic aid and medical care, improving access to water and sanitation, …
The Armed Forces of Liberia have recently integrated in their military training manual a set of recommendations and practical measures for the protection of health care, setting the example for other …
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A three-day seminar was organized by the ICRC in association with the high command of the Guinean Gendarmerie Nationale in September 2015. On the agenda were the principles of international …
Are you a budding artist just waiting for a chance to showcase your talent? Are you familiar with the Safer Access Framework (SAF) and have first-hand experience of the actions it contains? Well, …
United Nations, General Assembly, 70th session, Sixth Committee, items 85 of the agenda, statement by the ICRC, New York, 14 October 2015. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
Why does the ICRC visit detainees? By definition, detainees are potentially vulnerable. They are not in a position to manage their own lives. They are at the mercy of the detaining authorities and …
Struggling with frequent water cuts, residents of Syria's battered city of Aleppo have a new way to find the water needed for their daily lives - an interactive map on mobile phones. Full article on …
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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.
