Five years into the Syrian refugee crisis, the dire water situation in Jordan has only been exacerbated further by an average increase of 25% in the population. With approximately 85% of Syrian …
11-02-2016 Sana'a (ICRC) – Dominik Stillhart, director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has just concluded a three-day visit to war-torn Yemen. "I am appalled by …
Executives from six organisations spent a week in remote parts of South Sudan where they visited doctors who carry out war surgery and watched as thousands of residents gathered for food assistance. …
We asked Pascal Porchet , the new head of delegation of the ICRC in the Philippines, about his first few weeks in the country, the humanitarian issues and challenges the ICRC will face in 2016, and …
While the peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (FARC-EP) are making headway, there is no respite from the everyday armed …
Eritreans living in the border village of Aytera know how hard life can be. During the 1998–2000 war between Ethiopia and Eritrea most fled to makeshift camps. Since the conflict ended, they have …
The ICRC is present in Ethiopia since 1977 following the Ethio-Somali conflict. Currently, it conducts its operations across the country from the Addis Ababa delegation and a sub-delegation in …
13-02-2016 Sana'a/Geneva - A team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has managed to enter the city of Taiz, one of the worst-affected places in Yemen's fighting, and deliver …
13-02-2016 The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has scaled up its humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of families who have lost their homes and livelihoods after the onslaught of Typhoon …
15-02-2016 Farmers in Niger often take their herds as far as Nigeria or Chad to graze, some even go to Cameroon to sell their livestock. However, ongoing conflict near Lake Chad has meant these …
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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.
