In northeast Nigeria, Hadiza Hussaini was given no choice but to leave her home when fighting reached her village of Wumbi. "It was at night during the first week of the 2016 Ramadan fast. We started …
The newly installed water tanks on the roof deck of the jail. A newly installed water tank, with the surrounding foliage in the background. These pipes connect the water meter and the cistern tanks. …
The international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine affects millions of people and the recent increase in military operations - as well as the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam - are …
Amid heavy combat that has devastated Khartoum for six gruelling weeks, a glimmer of relief emerged as 300 children and 71 dedicated caretakers from Mygoma Orphanage were successfully evacuated on 7 …
The 2023 NATO Youth Summit brought together young leaders from Europe and North America to discuss and explore critical global security issues. The ICRC Delegation in Brussels took part in the summit …
Shanghai (ICRC) - The Regional Delegation for East Asia of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Tongji University Law School co-organized a seminar on the Contemporary Development …
Hunger strikes are a type of protest. Historically and worldwide, detainees have turned to hunger strikes to protest their detention, their treatment in detention or their conditions of detention. …
What do football grounds, teahouses and livestock markets have in common? In conflict-affected parts of Azerbaijan, these are some of the places where the International Committee of the Red Cross …
Even if the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights convention in the world, ICRC's president Mirjana Spoljaric stresses that much more needs to be done to protect …
Less than ten months has passed after the last significant escalation, and once again, affected families in Gaza must begin to rebuild their lives. These communities have now lived through three …
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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.
