Unprecedented stress on the most advanced health-care systems. Extreme strain on major economies and financial markets. A global shutdown such as the world has never seen before. This is today's …
Mexico is one of Latin America’s largest and most populous and diverse countries. Given the social and cultural differences between areas, the approaches needed to address the humanitarian problems …
Central America is large – nearly 13 times the size of Switzerland – and its geography varies widely, just like the economic, social and political circumstances. These differences from country to …
By Jordi Raich, head of the ICRC regional delegation for Mexico and Central America Mexico is one of Latin America's largest and most populous and diverse countries. Given the social and cultural …
The ICRC has seen first-hand the major challenges that Mexico is facing in assisting and protecting the thousands of people forced to flee their homes, leaving everything behind, in search of a …
According to official figures, there are at least 61,637 people missing in Mexico. Every day, public prosecutor’s offices and search commissions receive reports of missing persons or information …
The ICRC endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening IHL and universal humanitarian principles. This work involves disseminating and developing IHL and promoting its …
In New York city, mass-grave burials have quintupled. In Madrid, a skating rink was used as a morgue. If cities like this are struggling to cope with the COVID-19 death toll, what can we expect in …
This document 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 …
Many migrants find themselves with limited access, if any, to information about risks, prevention measures, health care and other essential services. Migrants in transit, those in need 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.
