Access to an already stressed health-care system in Syria is deteriorating further. Although we were recently able to deliver medical supplies to certain regions, the ICRC is calling on parties to …
Augustin Minani thought he would never see his children again. Fearing for his life after deadly attacks broke out in his neighbourhood in Burundi, the 31-year-old and his wife fled their home. But …
When he's not taking selfies on his mother's phone, nine-year-old Ahmad changes the dressing of his amputated legs and inspects his healing wounds on his own. Four years ago in Idlib, Syria, a mortar …
An estimated 11 million people have been displaced within their own country in the Middle East, and some 3.7 million Syrian refugees have fled to neighbouring countries. The ICRC is working across …
19-06-2015 Sana'a (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has opened a surgical hospital in the Yemeni city of Aden, as the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate. Aden …
This publication provides a condensed overview of the Safer Access emergency preparedness and development approach, with a focus on the Safer Access Framework. It summarizes the main aspects of the …
The ICRC defines economic security as the ability of individuals, households or communities to cover their essential needs sustainably and with dignity. This can vary according to an individual's …
What did we learn from the Nuremburg trials and how can these lessons be applied in contemporary armed conflicts? This was the question that experts from more than 30 countries sought to answer at an …
Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC, recently completed a 3-day visit to Bangkok where he delivered the biennial 7th Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Lecture on "Contemporary Challenges to …
18-06-2015 Geneva/Damascus - (ICRC) Around 40,000 people are in urgent need of basic services including water and electricity in the Syrian town of Moadamiyah, near Damascus. The town has been cut …
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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.
