With a safer space for their school, students and teachers of Pagatin renew their hopes for better learning. Nasrah Abdulbayan longs for her old school, where she studied and played without worry. …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Sanata Dharma University (SDU), Yogyakarta-Indonesia, and the Jesuit Conference of Asia-Pacific (JCAP) will launch a series of webinars on …
Last Friday, 23 October, the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Nuclear Weapons reached its 50th ratification at the UN. The Treaty will enter into force 90 days later, on 22 January 2021. For the …
The Asia-Pacific is a complex and diverse international humanitarian law (IHL) landscape. From Nauru to Pakistan, there have and will continue to be meaningful contributions made by Asia-Pacific …
The future is looking better and brighter for Maung Myint*. Not only did he pass the matriculation exams with flying colours but was also granted early release from prison due to it. A resident of …
Media outlets with journalists on dangerous assignments who need urgent humanitarian assistance -- media members who have been detained, are missing or who have been injured, for example -- can call …
A number of reports in the past few years have shed light on the danger which have come upon Afghanistan's healthcare system. Doctors, nurses and even patients have sadly been the subject of attacks …
Addis Ababa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on those taking part in clashes in northern Ethiopia to respect people’s lives and property as well as their access to …
Colombo — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concluding its latest round of emergency distributions of hygiene and health-related items in places of detention. The distributions …
Using new and accelerating technologies, the ICRC continues to develop virtual environments as one of the many tools used to teach, motivate and maintain universal respect for IHL. Video games are a …
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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.
