COVID-19 has made no exceptions. Faced with the same demon, our collective vulnerabilities lie exposed in the wake of this pandemic. The novel coronavirus represents a major threat to life in …
As cholera, measles and other chronic diseases continue to kill thousands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country is also grappling with COVID-19. The ICRC is adapting its support …
“I came home, thinking, and I started to cry there all over. Oh god, why is all of this happening to me!?” In one year, Nora's whole life fell apart. Before the anglophone crisis, everything was …
This article discusses a number of contemporary issues and challenges pertinent to the management of the dead in contemporary armed conflicts and other situations of violence and natural disasters …
With the onset of the COVID-19 crisis in the Philippines, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) adjusted its ongoing programming and launched new initiatives to assist national …
The Inspector General of Sindh Prisons appreciated the timely assistance of Pakistan Red Crescent Society and International Committee of the Red Cross in preventing and controlling COVID-19 in jails …
The prospect of the coronavirus pandemic entering prisons is devastating in any country of the world given how difficult it would be, in such precarious environments, to prevent the virus from …
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the North West and South West regions are facing new challenges following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Cameroon. I am afraid of the COVID-19 because if it …
As Syria enters its tenth year of conflict, everyone is facing a mostly invisible threat. The ICRC's largest operation continues to help millions of Syrians to maintain basic living conditions and …
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has given rise to a number of changes in and challenges to the operations of humanitarian organizations, including the ICRC. Countries affected by armed conflicts or …
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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.
