Monsoon rains, coupled with high winds and heavy rain from Cyclone Komen, caused devastating floods and landslides in several parts of Myanmar in July 2015. Together with the Myanmar Red Cross …
Across Africa’s Sahel region people are enduring ever-increasing levels of violence. While conflict dominates headlines, climate change adds a second pernicious dimension to the mix. Lemba Bisimwa, …
In a social media age when each of us can denounce violations, ICRC's confidential approach saves lives. The ICRC works on the ground in conflict zones. We provide people caught up in the fighting …
… realities of restricted movement, disrupted jobs and education, and the ongoing threat to …
Kinshasa (ICRC) – Since the start of 2023, an escalation in the fighting between armed groups in North Kivu province has displaced some 600,000 people*. Our teams in the field have observed an …
… their health. Young people prefer to find odd jobs in cities, where they live in cramped, …
The ICRC's role in prisons is to monitor conditions of detention and the treatment of detainees, and to ensure respect for a prisoner's right to a fair trial, fair treatment and judicial guarantees …
… are looking for is nothing out of this world: jobs for the adults, schools for the children … This can not happen without education, jobs and security, not just for the migrants …
… • Around the region, tension over access to jobs and social services are rising for …
… 4 When the violence broke out, we lost our jobs, we lost everything. Now I have to borrow … for people to rebuild their lives, hold down jobs or break out of cycles of violence. 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.
