Active in Kyrgyzstan since 1992, the ICRC works to protect and assist people affected by tensions or violence and people detained for security reasons, while providing support regarding …
Timbuktu, Mali. The women prepare to start their working day making wire fencing. Some of them are the family breadwinner, and depend on the income from this work to survive. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / A. …
"Health-care workers, facilities and transport must be respected and protected during armed conflicts, they must not be attacked or misused," says Erin O'Connor, ICRC health delegate in Gaza. During …
Elkhan, Maisa and their two children live in Aghdam, a village in the district of Tovuz. Aghdam is located on the international border between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which have been locked in …
Jerusalem – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is very concerned about the deteriorating health of Mohammad Nasreldin Mafadi Allaan, a Palestinian detainee in Israel who has been on …
The conflict in Yemen is causing immense suffering. Thousands of people have been killed, hundreds of thousands more have been forced to flee their homes. There have been attacks on medical …
Almost 4,600 people are still unaccounted for, more than two decades after the signing of a ceasefire agreement in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The ICRC is working …
"Many medical staff have fled the fighting and water shortages are rife in the Kidal region, in northern Mali," said Ibrahima Tounkara, who is in charge of the ICRC's activities in the area. To help …
Sana’a, Sawan district Civilian areas have not been spared the fighting. All sides have suffered. CC BY-NC-ND/ICRC/T. Glass Taiz, Dahra area of Janad district Amidst the destruction, the civilian …
Most Filipino farmers consider carabaos (water buffalos) as faithful partners in life. In remote communities in which conventional farming is commonly practiced, farmers mainly rely on a carabao's …
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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.
