By Jordi Raich, Head of the Regional Delegation for Mexico and Central America, ICRC Migrants and people displaced by violence are human beings with rights. While this may seem an obvious assertion …
Jordi Raich, head of the regional delegation for Mexico and Central America I arrived in Mexico at the beginning of 2018 to head up the regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red …
Manila (ICRC) – The deep scars left by the 2017 conflict in Marawi City , Lanao del Sur in southern Philippines, continue to haunt over 100,000 people who still do not have a home to return to. …
In 2018, the high levels of violence in Mexico continued to cause suffering and had serious humanitarian consequences. The violence resulted in people being killed (34,202 in 2018, i.e. 23.10 for …
A new exhibition on Yemen has opened in Manchester showcasing objects and items from the war-torn country. Yemen: Inside a crisis seeks to explore how conflict has impacted the lives of Yemenis …
Several years ago, young children were mesmerized by the appearance of a four-wheel drive vehicle that sped into their community with a group of armed men. The truck crisscrossed the main …
Armed conflicts, violence, disasters and migration all result in people going missing An international workshop titled Clarifying the Fate and Whereabouts of Missing Migrants: Exchanging Information …
In Yemen, the fighting, which enters its fifth year, has not only led to death, destruction and disease, it has disrupted every aspect of the daily lives of the struggling peoples. Desperation …
ICRC President Peter Maurer address, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, 10 May 2019. As delivered. We all see the enormous violations of international humanitarian law in …
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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.
