ITC and the International Committee of the Red Cross sign Letter of Intent to expand collaboration in humanitarian and development nexus. (Geneva) The International Trade Centre (ITC) and the …
Abdel Fattah Shamallakh standing on the balcony of his destroyed house, which is still under reconstruction. Abdel Fattah Shamallakh, 58, is retired. “I worked as a fisherman for 35 years when …
Over the past 55 years, the ICRC has worked to alleviate the suffering of people affected by conflict in Israel and the Occupied Territories (ILOT). Here's an overview of what we did in the first …
Two years ago, Hakimullah, a young boy with a physical disability lost contact with his family in the southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan following an armed clash that broke out in his village. …
… are also more likely to be in lower-paying jobs. This can be further impacted by the fact … often need the flexibility of lower-paying jobs to account for childcare.6 Some of the … additional strain on housing, health care, jobs and schools, which can increase as the …
… the only option. They leave behind their jobs and studies, belongings, security, hopes …
Humanitarian workers often work in the world’s most challenging environments to reach people who need help. At the ICRC, we do this while exercising impartiality and neutrality. Neutrality means not …
While fighting across Afghanistan has decreased significantly in the last year, Afghan families’ struggle to survive has not. The combined effects of a paralyzed banking system, lack of cash and job …
… banking system, as well as a lack of jobs and cash and the consequences of decades …
Moe Moe Nwe is from Thinbaw Kwei Village in Rakhine State. Her mother passed away when she was young. She’s been the sole breadwinner for her family ever since, caring for her father, who lives with …
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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.
