As we mark two years since the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict, people affected by ongoing hostilities share stories of resilience, despite the profound impact on their lives, …
… as well as activities that help people find jobs, learn new languages and support …
There was nothing significantly different about 8 October 2005. It was just another day of running errands, doing chores at home, going to school, writing a test, working the fields, etc. Then the …
… face the risk of losing their homes, their jobs and ties with their family and community. … of these displaced women were given part-time jobs in nurseries, thanks to an agreement with …
… have any roads or aqueduct here, there are no jobs, there is no work. This all creates …
Three nurses in Sabah, Malaysia, share stories of how they became humanitarian workers. Although they no longer work in health-care facilities, they are still committed to promoting health …
The Empress Shôken Fund is named after Her Majesty the Empress of Japan, who, in 1912, proposed the creation of an international fund to support the peacetime activities of National Red Cross and Red …
This is a summary of the final report of the evaluation of the Support Relationships in Armed Conflicts Initiative (SRI), a five-year strategy (2019-2023) aimed at broadening the ICRC's engagement …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expanded its response to meet Libya ’s growing humanitarian needs in 2019. The resumption of large-scale hostilities in April 2019 combined with …
This factsheet provides a summary of the activities that the ICRC carries out for vulnerable migrants and their families in the Americas. It explains our approach and describes what we, together with …
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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.
