In the chaos and violence of conflict, loved ones often get separated. This video shows the work of a Burundi Red Cross volunteer helping families to find each other. In 2012, the Burundi Red Cross …
Over several decades, cluster munitions have killed and maimed tens of thousands of people in war-torn countries around the world. The Fourth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster …
Video games get real War packaged for recreational consumption enthrals children and adults worldwide. For the military, these "electronic first-person shooter games" offer a great resource to adapt …
The repression of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, whatever the nationality of the offender and the place where they are committed, is crucial to ensuring respect for international …
Conflict and disaster often leave hospitals in ruins. In Afghanistan, Somalia, Haiti and countless other countries, ICRC engineers erect temporary clinics, rebuild hospitals damaged by war or …
The International Conference held in Geneva on 26-29 October 1863 formalized the ideas proposed by Henry Dunant in his book, A memory of Solferino. In this video, ICRC historian Daniel Palmieri …
Factsheet on methods of incorporating punishment into criminal law . In particular, the following questions/topics are addressed: method of criminalizing violations of international humanitarian law; …
Lecture given by Pascale Meige, deputy director of operations at the ICRC, on sexual violence in conflict and other situations of …
We had been trying for days to enter Dammaj, in Saada governorate, and evacuate those wounded as a result of the fighting. Here the ICRC team is negotiating with the governor of Saada 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.
