Godiya lives at an internally displaced peoples camp in Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria since 2014 after her community in Madagali was affected by armed conflict. According to Godiya, "It has been …
(Cairo - ICRC) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Al-Azhar University, one of the world’s oldest institutions of Islamic teaching, held a seminar on the “Principles of the …
The ICRC’s report on ‘Childhood in Rubble: The Humanitarian Consequences of Urban Warfare for Children’. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE Landmines, airstrikes, snipers – in cities across the world, …
The 18th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism seeking to clarify the fate and whereabouts of people missing in relation to the armed conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 and their aftermath was …
A month into the conflict in Sudan, Alfonso Verdú Pérez, ICRC’s head of delegation in Sudan, sheds light on the pressing humanitarian needs and some of the challenges the team has faced since the …
Fifteen years ago, Josie Concepcion was walking with her son near a market in Sultan Kudarat when she heard a sudden, massive explosion. Chaos and confusion ensued. In a few minutes, she heard sirens …
Geneva (ICRC) – Nearly one month since intense fighting broke out in Sudan, the humanitarian situation is quickly deteriorating. Civilians trapped in Khartoum are facing serious food and water …
States face a formidable task when it comes to implementing international humanitarian law (IHL) within the domestic legal order. This table contains information on all existing national committees …
ICRC Director General Robert Mardini and Special Envoy for Foresight and Techplomacy Balthasar Staehelin attended the third Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum (RIHF) on 21-22 February, organized …
The Pretoria regional delegation of the ICRC has been focused its efforts to responding to challenges faced by migrants and their families in the region in 2022. The ICRC in Southern Africa has been …
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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.
