Violence affecting Africa's Lake Chad region has forced thousands of people to flee their homes. The ICRC and the Cameroon Red Cross recently distributed food and household items to displaced persons …
Disappearances are a reality, whether linked to war, migration or disasters. They happen for different reasons, but the suffering of the families is the same. So is the need for documentation to …
In November 2014, a team of eight young field officers embarked on a journey across Sri Lanka. Their mission was to locate 392 families (out of 16,000) whose loved ones went missing during the …
Between 1986 and 2006, some 75,000 people were abducted in northern Uganda. The fate of several thousand remains unknown. The ICRC estimate that as many as 10,000 may still be missing. Their families …
My name is Amalya Yolchiyeva. My brother, Pashayev Pasha, went missing on 24 April 1994. I was only 12 at the time but I still remember vividly how my family started the long and painful search for …
Thirty years after Peru's bloody civil war, relatives of the dead and disappeared search for bodies and closure. Paralysed for more than a decade by a conflict between the Shining Path and the …
The ICRC regularly participates in military training exercises. But it's not every day that they involve over 30,000 troops, 21 ships, three submarines and more than 200 aircraft. These were the …
Promoting the right to know Since the end of the civil war in 1990, the ICRC has been encouraging the Lebanese authorities at all levels to take concrete measures to clarify the fate of people …
During the 1975–1990 conflict, thousands of people went missing across Lebanon. The majority of them were young males in their twenties of various nationalities (Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian and …
Alla Hovhannisyan's father went missing when she was a young girl. Alla, now 31, is an opthamologist who participates in a support programme for relatives of missing people. She was inspired to …
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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.
