Displacement, insecurity, flooding and a host of other issues have negatively impacted the ability of many South Sudanese to grow or otherwise access staple foods. This is compounded by renewed …
The Movement is an incredible force, especially when delivering aid to the most vulnerable people trapped in war. Increasingly, the ICRC and National Societies pool their resources to meet the …
Seventeen people of various trades and ages recently gathered for a training session on the basics of running their own business. Business for Dummies? Anything but – each participant has already …
Many neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo are completely devastated and people have been left without access to basic services like water, food, electricity and health care. Accessing drinking water …
28-07-2015 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack on a Yemeni Red Crescent Society (YRCS) ambulance in the city of Taiz on Thursday …
One of the tragic consequences of the armed conflict in the west of the Central African Republic is that families have become separated and dispersed as they fled. When they weren't trapped in their …
November 2013. The international exhibition began at Tahala Rarihasina Analakely, a building constructed at the start of the 20th century in the heart of Madagascar's capital. CC BY-NC-ND/CICR At the …
As war and harsh living conditions in Syria force thousands of families to flee to Jordan in search of a safe haven, many family members become separated. The ICRC helps reunite them by establishing …
The humanitarian situation in Aleppo is very dramatic. Syria's most populated city and one of the main commercial hubs before the conflict erupted in 2011, Aleppo is today a city devastated by the …
Humanitarian aid, by definition, is provided in complex and insecure settings. Therefore humanitarian workers, including health-care personnel, often face tremendous risks to provide assistance 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.
