To commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared (IDOD), a group of families in Aita and Siwai, Bougainville honoured the lives of their loved ones who went missing during the Bougainville …
At the lone kindergarten in Tezekend village of Aghdam district, Azerbaijan, a child runs excitedly to hug her favourite swing in the playground, while a few older children from the neighbourhood …
Over the past six months across Ukraine, thousands have lost family members, had to flee their homes or are in need or urgent medical care. Here are some of the people we've met. All photos by …
“Moving our bodies to communicate with bodies that aren’t there.” This line was the inspiration behind a communal dance organized for family members of people who disappeared in the armed violence …
For many people, the word confinement has a direct link to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in Colombia, many communities were sadly all too familiar with the concept long before the global health …
The ICRC defines a support relationship in armed conflict as one in which an actor provides support to a party to armed conflict that increases the latter’s capacity to conduct armed conflict. The …
" Nasaan ang anak ko? (Where is my daughter)," asked Anne* looking straight at Jennifer*, who was introduced to her by a staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Smiling, …
In Mali, people’s lives continue to be heavily impacted by the conflict there. Back in September, Martin Schüepp, the new director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
Every day the Red Cross Movement work helps to bring answers to families of the missing on the fate of their loved ones. It is never an easy task. Between April and August 2022, armed clashes in …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), organized the national rounds of the 13th Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition on …
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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.
