Harbel, Liberia, 24 June 2015. The deputy head of the ICRC's Liberia delegation, Benjamin Lark, explains the role of the ICRC to Joshua During, deputy commander of the Emergency Response Unit (riot …
Please don't make any more like us. We don't want any more hibakusha This is the prayer of the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - also known as "hibakusha". They came together to share their …
Persistent heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar, exacerbated by Cyclone Komen on July 31, have caused landslides and extensive flooding across the country. The International Committee of the Red Cross …
Somalia has been ravaged by decades of armed conflict which has disrupted livelihoods and thrown the social fabric into disarray. Seasonal occurrences of drought and floods deepen the crisis by …
Meet Dr Masao Tomonaga, Honorary Director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital. Dr Tomonaga has cared for leukaemia patients, including atomic bomb survivors, and focused on how …
In times of conflict and crisis, the ICRC's Economic Security Unit is on the front line, providing urgent relief and long-term support to those affected by violence. Every year it puts millions of …
Every year hundreds of thousands of people flee from fighting and are left without the basic means of survival – food, water and shelter. The ICRC's Economic Security Unit (ECOSEC) is there to help …
A humanitarian emergency continues to mobilize the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in the Diffa region of Niger, on the border with Nigeria. Since February 2015, the conflict that …
Armed conflict and other situations of violence and disasters cause much more anguish than what is seen on the surface. In the midst of terror and panic family members can be separated in minutes. In …
06-08-2015 Geneva/Sana'a - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has today facilitated the transfer of seven released prisoners from Aden to Sana'a. "The ICRC was directly approached by …
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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.
