A major impact of the 12-year-old armed conflict in north-east Nigeria is the record number of missing persons. The numbers currently stand at over 24,000 missing persons, representing half of the …
Ikram Ullah's everyday choices are largely based on two convictions: no one is too young to save a life and timely first aid can be the difference between life and death. Ikram, now in his early 20s, …
Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has identified the remains of six Argentine soldiers buried on the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Their families were informed today, …
Innovation is not new to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). For 160 years, we have met existing, new and future challenges with flexibility and ingenuity while working in some of …
Aline Manda, a 31-year-old mother of six, was hit by three bullets and wounded by grenade fragments when the bus she was riding came under attack. She received emergency surgery and now lives a …
On Sunday, August 22, Diomède was walking in the streets of Bamenda, in Cameroon, when he was attacked by armed men in the middle of the afternoon. He succumbed to his injuries the next day. While in …
Statement Speech given by ICRC President Peter Maurer at a high-level ministerial meeting on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan on 13 September 2021 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva. …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), has been carrying out an intensive infection prevention and control (IPC) …
In our latest piece exploring the link between climate change and conflict, we focus on Somalia and a way of life under threat. With COP26 on the horizon in Glasgow, UK, communities enduring conflict …
Through a cash-for-work programme, displaced families repaired their bamboo houses at the Bito Buadi Itowa village, a transitional shelter for people affected by the Marawi conflict. Bahay kubo or …
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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.
