The humanitarian needs in Afar are huge. Many people living with disabilities do not have access to medical services. Getachew Gesese sits on a cemented edge of a flower bed, under a flagpole in …
It has been eight years since the conflict in Yemen started, impacting millions of people. Lives have been lost, families displaced, homes and infrastructure destroyed, and people's livelihoods …
In collaboration with Qatar Red Crescent Society and the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN), the ICRC co-organized a three-day Regional Peer Workshop on Humanitarian Frontline …
Using innovative technologies and scientific expertise to help people in need is the goal of the Engineering for Humanitarian Action initiative launched by the ICRC, ETH Zurich and EPFL in 2020. Six …
Statement Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at the United Nations General Assembly, 77th session, Sixth Committee Plenary Meeting on Measures to Eliminate International …
“The hardest part about working as a forensic doctor is experiencing grief alongside the families. And it’s a different grief because the death was violent, not natural,” says Yesenia Delgado, a …
ICRC Staff accompanied Egyptian officers Egyptian officers looking for the remains of their comrades who died during the conflict, accompanied by staff from the ICRC as a neutral humanitarian party. …
The obvious signs of the impact of conflict can no longer be spotted on the streets of Afatli, Borsunlu and Sarov communities of Agdam and Tartar districts in Azerbaijan, which were among the most …
05-10-2022 Harare, 30 September 2022 – Midlands State University has won the Zimbabwe National International Humanitarian Law Moot Court competition co-hosted by the International Committee of the …
04-10-2022 Jerusalem (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned by the intensification of armed violence in parts of the West Bank leading to numerous civilian …
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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.
