A number of reports in the past few years have shed light on the danger which have come upon Afghanistan's healthcare system. Doctors, nurses and even patients have sadly been the subject of attacks …
Media outlets with journalists on dangerous assignments who need urgent humanitarian assistance -- media members who have been detained, are missing or who have been injured, for example -- can call …
The future is looking better and brighter for Maung Myint*. Not only did he pass the matriculation exams with flying colours but was also granted early release from prison due to it. A resident of …
The Asia-Pacific is a complex and diverse international humanitarian law (IHL) landscape. From Nauru to Pakistan, there have and will continue to be meaningful contributions made by Asia-Pacific …
Last Friday, 23 October, the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Nuclear Weapons reached its 50th ratification at the UN. The Treaty will enter into force 90 days later, on 22 January 2021. For the …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Sanata Dharma University (SDU), Yogyakarta-Indonesia, and the Jesuit Conference of Asia-Pacific (JCAP) will launch a series of webinars on …
With a safer space for their school, students and teachers of Pagatin renew their hopes for better learning. Nasrah Abdulbayan longs for her old school, where she studied and played without worry. …
The figures are from the Brazilian Yearbook on Public Safety published on Monday (19) and have set alarm bells ringing again about the humanitarian impact of this problem in the country. Brasilia …
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unique challenges in places of detention worldwide. Given the specific vulnerabilities of detainees and the difficulties faced while controlling the spread of the …
In an exclusive interview with 105.3 Afro FM, Head of ICRC Delegation to the African Union(ADO), Mr. Bruce Mokaya Orina reflected on the delegation`s activities. Mr Mokaya conveyed his perception of …
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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.
