For International Women's Day, we show how women play a vital role in helping their communities survive > > Women enduring crisis : photos and video testimonies Women are absolutely pivotal in giving …
Persons deprived of their liberty must be treated with dignity and humanity, regardless of the reasons for their …
Even wars have limits: Wounded have the right to receive medical care …
11-03-2015 Geneva / Bogotá (ICRC) – Colombians are still suffering the consequences of the conflict and other major violence on a daily basis. That was the message from the ICRC's delegation in …
"Please, pray for me so I can recover soon. I have just started my final exam." These were the only words Hafiza Shikder Kuntala could whisper lying on her bed at the Burns Unit of Dhaka Medical …
The love for football unites people across the world. While the physical benefits are obvious, the psychological value is often overlooked, though it is particularly important for people living in …
11-03-2015 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The Southern Highlands Provincial Government, the Provincial Health Authority and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed a memorandum of …
Rape and other forms of sexual violence cause physical and psychological harm to their victims (women, girls, men and boys) and have a direct impact on their families and communities. Rape and other …
In 2014, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) continued working to protect and assist people affected by decades of non-international armed conflict and other situations of violence. …
The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement makes no distinction between victims. Our only priority is to provide emergency aid to those in …
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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.
