Speech given by Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC, Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons, Vienna, Austria There has been a fundamental change in the debate about …
Typhoon Hagupit (local name Ruby) made landfall in the central Philippines on the evening of Saturday, 6 December, hitting the town of Dolores, on eastern Samar, with sustained winds of up to 195 …
This publication features processes and tools that can be used to integrate market assessment into the different phases of the project cycle, taking the Movement’s existing technical documents into …
05-12-2014 N'Djamena (ICRC) – Forty-four years after the Red Cross of Chad was founded, Chad's National Assembly has passed legislation aimed at protecting the red cross and red crescent emblems in …
This weekend, Typhoon Hagupit (local name Ruby) is expected to make landfall in central Philippines as a Category-5 storm. It will most likely be accompanied by strong winds, storm surges of 4 - 5 …
04-12-2014 Yerevan (ICRC) – Residents of the remote village of Movses, in the Tavush region along the international border with Azerbaijan, now have safer and easier access to clean drinking water …
ICRC medical adviser Dr Robin Coupland visited Australia recently to attend the World Medical Association's Global Health Summit. During his visit, we talked to him about his long career as an ICRC …
A new publication presents measures to minimize the impact of military operations on the delivery of health care. Data gathered by the ICRC since 2012 in 23 operational contexts, and published in an …
04-12-2014 In November, the ICRC provided clean water, food, health care and other emergency relief for more civilians than ever before, with joint ICRC-Syrian Arab Red Crescent teams repeatedly …
04-12-2014 Kuala Lumpur (ICRC) – Thirty prison managers and medical personnel have just completed a three-day seminar on health care in places of detention organized by the ICRC in close cooperation …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
