“For me, the support that I have got from the ICRC helped a lot. I became a wholesale buyer of goods, unlike before. Parts are always available, and I don't need to go to the city for every device …
It could be hard to imagine that such turquoise waters have ever witnessed a conflict between belligerents, destruction, or displacement of people. This is the Red Sea Coast in Zubab, Bab El Mandeb …
This review of the Physical Rehabilitation Programme’s worldwide activities in 2023 provides an illustrated, region-by-region overview of how the ICRC helps people with disabilities, victims of armed …
The ICRC works in many war-affected countries to prevent and mitigate the effects of weapon contamination. Its activities include operating its own programmes to identify hazards, assess risks and …
Grégoire Nsingiyumva is a technician. His job is to install and maintain biogas systems in prisons across Rwanda. Grégoire is also a prisoner. Since 1990, the ICRC has been working with Rwanda …
… today means a narrower path towards future jobs and opportunities that would allow these … where children scrape a living through menial jobs, just to survive. Above all, you see it …
… require further support, as they do not have jobs or any other source of income to make a … in the city of Pemba, he would do small jobs such as transporting sand for sale. He …
… treating those most in need. Some quit their jobs, out of fear or exhaustion. 2021 was the … wounded. Health-care workers often quit their jobs and leave badly affected areas as soon as …
… over 200 members have already lost their jobs due to the pandemic. However, keke …
Ibrahim is one of many Lebanese forced to flee the conflict in Syria and return to Lebanon. Finding a job is tough, and he struggles to make ends meet. The ICRC is helping him, and others like him, …
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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.
