Democratic Republic of the Congo: The survivors
Decades of fighting in eastern DRC have had horrific consequences, including the widespread rape of women, men and children. Every year, the obstetric unit of Panzi Hospital, Bukavu, treats hundreds …
Decades of fighting in eastern DRC have had horrific consequences, including the widespread rape of women, men and children. Every year, the obstetric unit of Panzi Hospital, Bukavu, treats hundreds …
Decades of fighting in eastern DRC have had horrific consequences, including the widespread rape of women, men and children. Every year, the obstetric unit of Panzi Hospital, Bukavu, treats hundreds …
A recent visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by the president of the ICRC, Peter Maurer, provided an opportunity to discuss the ICRC's response to humanitarian needs in the country …
The report, based primarily on national practice, offers a pragmatic approach to the prevention and suppression of international crimes, paying particular attention to the Statute of the …
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 …
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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.