Unrest in Southern Thailand continues to affect countless families. Many lives been turned upside-down by the loss or detention of a family member (often the breadwinner), or loved ones needing care …
Most parents tend to remember dates associated with their children - the date of birth, the first time the child spoke, took the first step, smiled or laughed, the first day of school, the date of …
As fighting continues unabated across Yemen, millions of people are struggling to meet their basic needs. In the southern city of Aden, around half the population are displaced from their homes, …
Healing the land, replanting hope Al Qarara, Khan Younis, Gaza / CC BY-NC-ND/ICRC/ D. Von Burgsdorff Hundreds of hectares of agricultural land along Gaza's border with Israel were destroyed during …
Technological advances in weaponry mean that decisions about the use of force on the battlefield could increasingly be taken by machines operating without human intervention. A recent event in …
10-07-2015 Geneva/Juba - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the deaths in South Sudan of more than a dozen people following clashes that forced doctors and …
Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1 July 1995. In the days after the fall of Srebrenica, those who had fled the town started to arrive in Tuzla. During the first two weeks, ICRC staff took personal risks to …
Srebrenica 1995 - 2015 I wish Finally To lay down in the grave The missing grave Next to my child The missing child To warm up his hands. …
This page highlights the BBC's coverage of recent ICRC distributions of food and essential household items in Udier, South Sudan. View the photo gallery on our distribution operations in Udier on the …
When a hospital in Kodok, South Sudan was caught in the crossfire between the conflict's two warring parties, doctors were forced to evacuate. Two people died as a direct result of fighting, but 11 …
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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.
