Disappearances are a reality. They happen for different reasons: during war, when people migrate, due to natural or man-made disasters. For the families of the disappeared, the anguish of uncertainty …
02-10-2015 Kiev (ICRC) – Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a round-table discussion with representatives of Ukrainian government institutions on the recovery, …
You don't need to travel far from Kiev's main thoroughfare with its smart boutiques, loud music and strolling crowds to find the other Ukraine. And this is not, as you might think, the desperate …
Doctors Alain Kabakuli, surgeon, and Pierre Kabuya, anaesthetist, explain how war-wounded patients are treated at Bukavu General Hospital with the limited means available in the region. In this video …
03-10-2015 Kabul/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply shocked by the bombing of the MSF hospital in Kunduz, and strongly condemns such violence against …
50 million people in urban areas face protracted and repeated armed violence. The direct impact of conflict is visible and well understood, but there is less research into the cumulative, long-term …
05-10-2015 Juba, 5 October 2015 - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been forced to withdraw all its staff from a humanitarian compound in Leer County, Unity State after it was …
50 million people in urban areas face protracted and repeated armed violence. The direct impact of conflict is visible and well understood, but there is less research into the cumulative, long-term …
Since the start of 2015, the ICRC has provided food, essential relief items, clean water, and health care services to over two million displaced people living in hard-to-reach or isolated areas in …
When there are dozens of seriously injured patients at the entrance to a hospital, who should be treated first? To prepare medical staff for these situation in DRC, we regularly organize triage …
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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.
