A 12 sq m room in Ghazni city, Afghanistan, is a world of milestones for 51-year-old Gulshah. Here, she sees how her family learnt to survive in an unfamiliar environment, her nine children growing …
"Would you believe me if I said that I feel jealous when I see parents visiting the graves of their sons? I keep asking myself: 'don't I deserve even this?'" Ashot's* son fought in last year's …
Geneva (ICRC) – The family members of 14 people who were unaccounted for in connection with the armed conflict of 1992-1993 in Abkhazia were informed that their loved ones were positively identified …
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Tanganyika Province, the armed violence that has raged for the past three years has seriously compromised access to health care. People living north-west …
Fact sheet explaining what it means to implement international humanitarian law at the national level, whose responsibility it is to do so, what general measures must be adopted and how this can be …
Factsheet explaining the provisions of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). In particular, the following questions are addressed: what is the object and purpose of the ATT? To what arms does the ATT apply? …
Gillies Carbonnier, the vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), recently travelled to Honduras and El Salvador. At the end of his six-day trip, he concluded that the …
No one can address these challenges alone, we must work together. A little over a year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world down to its knees. No country was spared the wrath, revealing how …
"I am finally able to have my family around me after a very hard and tough phase of our lives.” How would you feel if you had not seen nor heard from a beloved member of your family for 18 good …
Suva, Fiji (ICRC) – Twenty officers from the Fiji Corrections Service who will be deployed for one year on a UN mission to South Sudan attended a pre-deployment training facilitated by the …
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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.
