Following the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bosnia-Herzegovina in early March 2020, an immense public uncertainty emerged, compounded with unclarity on the nature of the virus at the time. The …
Three years may have passed since violence ravaged the central region of Kasai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but thousands of families are still struggling to return to normal. Farming is …
KUALA LUMPUR – While COVID-19 remains a clear and present threat in all places of detention in Malaysia, it is not the only health challenge the facilities have been contending with. No different to …
“My son turned one on the very first day of war. We had laid the table and had a birthday cake to celebrate.” A birthday that will live long in Narine's memory, for all the wrong reasons. The …
The explosion, which shook Beirut on August 4th, left over 200 people dead and over 6000 injured. On top of a spiraling economic crisis and a raging coronavirus pandemic, Lebanon was already in a …
Families in Maguindanao face instability wrought by protracted armed conflicts and the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of families in Maguindanao , Southern Philippines were forced to flee several times …
Giving a boost to healthcare facilities for detainees, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has upgraded the clinic of Sarpoza Provincial Prison in Kandahar . As part of the project, …
Since March 2020, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in coordination with the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent …
In Brazil, urban violence has heavily affected communities' access to essential public services, such as education , healthcare and social welfare. The effects of a rapid and unregulated urban sprawl …
Across Africa’s Sahel region people are enduring ever-increasing levels of violence. While conflict dominates headlines, climate change adds a second pernicious dimension to the mix. Lemba Bisimwa, …
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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.
