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 …
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 …
A woman waits for a Red Cross food parcel in Rural Aleppo after fleeing her home in Raqqa. CC BY-NC-ND/CRC Simply surviving from day to day in the midst of conflict is desperately hard for people who …
Civilians must be protected. Arms bearers must at all times make the distinction between the civilian population and …
For many, football is not just a sport. It is passion, it is life, it is religion. And for some others, like Mohammad Musa, Masoud Hamidi and Nangyali, it is a new lease on life. When they lost limbs …
10-03-2015 Violence in Nigeria is not only claiming lives and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in the country itself; it is spilling over into neighbouring Chad, Niger and …
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 …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in South Sudan since the beginning of the emergency in mid-December 2013 to the end of February 2015. This month's theme: Promoting the laws that protect civilians …
09-03-2015 Bamako / Geneva (ICRC) –Tensions remain acute in northern Mali, where attacks occurred in Kidal once again this past weekend. There was violence in the capital Bamako as well. The …
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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.
