This film introduces you to the profession of administrator at the ICRC. It highlights the complexity of the files one handles in the post, the importance of the administrator's work within an ICRC …
Abdul Qadir from Jawzjan province in the north of Afghanistan explains why he donates blood and what it means to help save lives. As conflict continues in Afghanistan and humanitarian needs grow, …
This course provides an introduction to the laws governing health care services in armed conflict, and explains why health-care workers need protection. Using cartoons, interactive case studies …
ICRC field officer Alvin Loyola still remembers when a 25-year-old detainee in Aurora Provincial Jail asked him: "Do you think that you can find my real father?" The detainee had not been visited by …
The archives of ICRC delegations operating outside Switzerland are stored under index number D. Detailed inventories have been drawn up of the archives of the delegations established by the ICRC …
Tehran (ICRC) – A round-table meeting took place today on the challenges of protecting health-care workers from violence during conflict and other emergencies, particularly in the Middle East. It was …
The ICRC archives, a vast array of images, videos, documents, audio and more from 1966-1975, are now open to the public. This period covers a number of important historical events, including the …
Increasingly, explosive weapons designed for warfare on open battlefields are being used in towns and cities. The effects on civilians are often devastating, even when these weapons are aimed at …
Cities have never been immune from warfare. But over the last century, armed conflicts have increasingly been fought in populated areas. This has exposed civilians to greater risk of death, injury, …
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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.
