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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
This story is about the coexistence of hope and despair, dreams and reality, children and the conflict. And who better to tell it than the children themselves? Here's Satenik, one of the kids who …
The road travelled by those arriving at the Migrant Receiving Station in La Peñita, Panama, is long and dangerous enough, yet migrants still have several borders and thousands more kilometres ahead …
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to be a global socio-economic earthquake. It will be felt acutely in the world’s conflict zones, where millions are already coping with little or no health care, food, …
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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.
