Alyesha Baghryan was 33 when his wife Stella went missing in August 1993 together with a group of five other people from their village in Nagorny Karabakh. Alyesha and Stella had three children who …
Mrs Tsaghik is mother to Arshak Soghoyan who went missing during his military service in Nagorny Karabakh in the mid 1990s. Since then, Mrs Tsaghik has never stopped searching for her son. After he …
Mariam Poghosyan's son disappeared in December 1993. She was never to see him again and in her grief she refused even to leave the house. But gradually, through contact with others who are going …
Khartoum/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has assisted in the transfer of 13 Sudanese Armed Forces personnel, three Policemen and two civilians released by the …
Since the conflict in Nepal ended nine years ago, the ICRC delegation in Kathmandu has been supporting the families of those who disappeared. As many as 1,343 people are still missing in the country …
The extreme hardship endured by millions of people inside Syria - and by the scores of refugees who have fled the country - continues to grow by the day. The shocking images of a drowned …
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We at the ICRC have been working across the front lines in Yemen to help hundreds of thousands of people in need, despite worsening security conditions, in what has become one of the world's most …
The lifeless body of a toddler found recently on a Turkish beach, whom the world would come to know as Aylan Kurdi, was from Kobane (Ain al-Arab), Syria. He is one of hundreds of Syrian and other …
Suffering does not change its face. It is as perennial as bloody human conflict. I saw that recently in Yemen. I met a man in the old city of Sana'a, the capital. A bomb had destroyed his home. And …
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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.
