Mozambique faces a triple humanitarian crisis: exposure to armed conflict, persistent threats from climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent attacks in different districts of the northern …
Statement This statement was delivered by Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, on the 1 March 2022 at the High Level Segment of the 49th Session of the Human …
In conflict scenarios, comprehensive microbiology services are rarely available, whereas wound infections are very common. The ICRC Antibiotic Protocol for Weapon Wounded is an evidence informed …
Surgical Learning Hubs concept and implementation is one of the key deliverables of the Hospital Surgical Capacity Building Project. The poster explains how setting up STHs is crystalizing all the …
Surgical Training Hubs concept and implementation is one of the key deliverables of the Hospital Surgical Capacity Building Project. The poster explains how setting up STHs is crystalizing all the …
ICRC’s General Assembly renewed in 2019 its strong commitment to continue to be present and further develop an agile hospital surgical workforce, both ICRC and local, in countries affected by …
ICRC’s General Assembly renewed in 2019 its strong commitment to continue to be present and further develop an agile hospital surgical workforce, both ICRC and local, in countries affected by …
01-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC/IFRC) - With the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and neighbouring countries deteriorating rapidly, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International …
The use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area in populated areas is one of the main causes of civilian harm in today’s armed conflicts. This report provides a broad evidence-based assessment …
The use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area in populated areas is one of the main causes of civilian harm in today’s armed conflicts. This report provides a broad evidence-based assessment …
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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.
