For many Burundians on the run from the violence in their country, Mahama Camp in Rwanda will be home until it is safe enough to go back to Burundi. As with any conflict, people are not just torn …
No one told the cows not to eat the corn. When Morris Yaji and his family fled escalating violence around their town in north-eastern Nigeria last year, the couple and their 10 children had enough …
Summer – usually a time for vacations, sun and hanging around with friends. But for one group of students, summer was a time for new things, in the form of studies and IHL. This July, for the second …
María. Inside since 14 April 2014. "My youngest son doesn't even know I'm in here. I try to be strong when we talk on the phone, but I can hardly speak. It's a very difficult situation for a mother." …
"I want to let others know that disabled people can play sports too." Pring Thorn was born with one-sided polio. She cannot walk without help, and has spent her life feeling isolated and alone. But …
The work of the ICRC and Syrian Arab Red Crescent in the water crisis in Aleppo. Spread the word! Share on Twitter , Facebook , Google+ and LinkedIn Water is the biggest challenge in the …
02-09-2015 Geneva / Sana'a (ICRC) – Two staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been shot and killed in Yemen. They were travelling with colleagues in a convoy …
02-09-2015 Geneva / Damascus – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says the civilian population in the city of Aleppo is undergoing enormous suffering because of deliberate cuts to …
03-09-2015 Kathmandu (ICRC/Nepal Red Cross Society) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Nepal Red Cross Society and National Network of Families of Disappeared and Missing Nepal …
Kathmandu (ICRC/Nepal Red Cross Society) – Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have expressed serious concern over the growing incidents of …
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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.
