It is 27 years since her husband disappeared but Adelina is still searching for him. He is one of 15,000 Peruvians reported missing, caught up in battles between the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla …
The ITS traces the victims of Nazi persecution and their families, documents their fate and makes its archives available for research. The ICRC managed the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad …
Long after the last shot in a conflict is fired, unexploded and abandoned weapons continue to kill and maim. In the last decade alone, they took more than 17,000 lives and injured over 70,000. People …
Long after the last shot in a conflict is fired, unexploded and abandoned weapons continue to kill and maim. In the last decade alone, they took more than 17,000 lives and injured over 70,000. …
Annex This document is reproduced as a reference text to the article ‘The Layha for the Mujahideen: an analysis of the code of conduct for the Taliban fighters under Islamic Law’, by Muhammad Munir, …
In this film, people who have gone to war against their governments speak frankly about what they did, their knowledge of and respect for the laws of war, and their view of the ICRC's work. Whether …
Can you imagine yourself helping people regain their economic security after a conflict? This video presents the huge scope of the ICRC's work in this …
Humanitarian logistics today is often even more complex and demanding than in the private sector. The ICRC is looking for skilled and experienced professionals in this field. Do you have those …
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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.
