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 …
06-08-2015 6 August 2015, Hiroshima/ Geneva (IFRC/ICRC) – Seventy years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese Red Cross Society hospitals are still treating thousands of …
What are the responsibilities of a third party in an event of a genocide? Who is a bystander and how can he or she protect genocide victims? A public lecture by Nobuo Hayashi, Senior Legal Adviser at …
06-08-2015 6 August 2015, Dhaka - Experienced media professionals covering diplomatic assignments in Bangladesh came together to discuss the challenges for their profession's ethics and principles, …
The humanitarian situation in Yemen is catastrophic. The conflict has killed more than 3,800 people and displaced 1.3 million so far. No family has been left untouched. The laws of war must be …
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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.
