Statement A statement from Dominik Stillhart, the director of operations for the ICRC. "People living in eastern Ukraine know something that many others in the world have forgotten: There is an …
On a bright and sunny Friday afternoon at the Moin Khan Sports Academy in Karachi two teams lined up on the cricket pitch for the final face-off of the National Physical Disability Cricket Twenty20 …
In 2018, the ICRC published “Towards Humane Prisons: a principled and participatory approach to prison planning and design” to describe the key humanitarian elements to consider when building new …
In 2018, the ICRC published “Towards Humane Prisons: a principled and participatory approach to prison planning and design” to describe the key humanitarian elements to consider when building new …
In 2018, the ICRC published “Towards Humane Prisons: a principled and participatory approach to prison planning and design” to describe the key humanitarian elements to consider when building new …
In 2018, the ICRC published “Towards Humane Prisons: a principled and participatory approach to prison planning and design” to describe the key humanitarian elements to consider when building new …
This document presents a set of principles to guide interaction between families and a broad range of stakeholders, including states and their various organs, international and non-governmental …
Digital identities are sometimes praised as a way of “making the invisible visible”. In humanitarian work, this has often meant giving people a way to prove who they are, so that they can receive …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ–IBA) hosted the annual Humanitarian Reporting Award on 2 December 2021, recognizing some of the …
From restoring family links, to ensuring the dignified treatment and management of the dead, it is the universal principles of humanity and voluntary service that drives our work in Pakistan and the …
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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.
