Belgrade (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in cooperation with the Coordination of Serbian Associations of Families of Missing, Murdered and Killed Persons from the Former …
Hundreds of thousands of people are missing worldwide due to armed conflict, violence, disasters, and in the context of migration. Many never return and are never heard from again. Behind every …
Resolve Platform is a comprehensive web-based solution developed by the ICRC to be offered to partners – governments, experts, agencies, organizations, etc. – to help record, process, store, archive …
People go missing in Africa during armed conflicts, other situations of violence, disasters and in the context of migration. In addition to missing persons themselves, their families bear the brunt …
Tbilisi (ICRC) – The family members of five people who were unaccounted for in connection with the 1992–1993 armed conflict in Abkhazia have been informed that their loved ones were identified with …
The article was written by the ICRC Malaysia’s Legal Adviser, Aisya Abdul Rahman Along with 196 other countries, Malaysia is a state party to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 that form …
The rules of war, or international humanitarian law (as it is known formally) are a set of international rules that set out what can and cannot be done during an armed conflict. The main purpose of …
Police inspector Shafiq Ahmed is a hero of sorts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP, formerly North-West Frontier Province). Dedicating nearly 30 years of his life to handling explosives and training bomb …
Geneva/Kabul (ICRC) – Hundreds of thousands of civilians are at risk as fighting intensifies in and around Kunduz, Lashkar Gah, Kandahar, and other Afghan cities. The International Committee of the …
From 12 -16 Jul 2021, ICRC Regional delegation in New Delhi conducted an online certificate course on Maritime Security Operations and Contemporary challenges in collaboration with the Rashtriya …
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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.
