Access to physical rehabilitation services is essential for ensuring that people with physical disabilities participate fully in society. Regaining mobility is an important step towards having the …
… of skilled workers who have lost their jobs due to the conflict, and the ICRC is …
Amir Khan, Ahmadullah and Mohammad Halim are familiar with hard times. Living through the death of their loved ones, loss of all their belongings, financial crunch and displacement from their homes, …
3 December is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In the countries where we are working, people with disabilities are often among those who suffer the greatest hardship. This is …
Physical rehabilitation is an important part of the rehabilitation process. It is not an objective in itself but an essential part of fully integrating people with disabilities in society. …
This review of the Physical Rehabilitation Programme’s worldwide activities in 2022 provides an illustrated, region-by-region overview of how the ICRC helps people with disabilities participate fully …
28-year-old Su-Su loves her job helping injured children and adults walk again. She works in the Hpa-An Orthopaedic Centre in southern Myanmar, where she makes and custom fits artificial limbs for …
… of a few people who are already doing these jobs. Our economic security programmes help …
Access to physical rehabilitation services is essential for ensuring that people with physical disabilities participate fully in society. Regaining mobility is an important step towards having the …
The ICRC works in many war-affected countries to prevent and mitigate the effects of weapon contamination. Its activities include operating its own programmes to identify hazards, assess risks and …
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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.
