… conspired to restrict the people's access to water, the very essence of life. To ease their … suffering, the ICRC endeavours to provide water to detainees and civilians affected by … severe water shortage, the ICRC's water and habitat programme in Somalia works not only to …
… has put basic services, particularly food, water and health care, under increasing … families in his home. ICRC/Nathalie Perroud Water points targeted Food insecurity is closely linked to water scarcity. When communities can't get …
… This month's theme: Keeping safe drinking water flowing FACTS & FIGURES JANUARY 2015 … in September completed construction of eight water yards in five counties. In Waat and … the town’s water system, the ICRC water and habitat team performed maintenance on two …
… to take urgent action to ensure a continued water supply in the Lugansk region, in … to pay for the electricity consumption of a water board supplying water on both sides of the line of contact. …
… were falling ill from drinking contaminated water. The ICRC resolved the problem by installing rainwater storage tanks outside every house, the … school and the local clinic. One of the 103 water tanks that the ICRC supplied to the …
… released a report titled “Completion Of ICRC Water Program - Host Communities and Syrian … the needs generated by refugee influx in the water supply sectors. The report underlines … challenges linked to the provision of water supply. The report highlights how the …
… The ICRC has been training water technicians in Iraq since 2011. Clean water is hard to come by in the Iraqi countryside. Drought, falling water levels in the Tigris and the Euphrates, …
… into the Syrian refugee crisis, the dire water situation in Jordan has only been … on the delivery of essential services like water supply, especially in the northern … the ICRC in coordination with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Yarmouk Water …
… Regular and adequate supply of clean drinking water has long been a luxury that over 1,700 … and deteriorated spring-fed gravity piped water supply systems for their daily supply of … of Kalilangan Range Ali, ICRC water and habitat programme manager in Iligan Marion …
… the ICRC's programme to rehabilitate critical water infrastructure serving communities in … the savings by households of paying for water from trucks and the savings in operational costs by the water companies. The evaluation also …
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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.
