People go missing in Africa during armed conflicts, other situations of violence, disasters and in the context of migration. In addition to missing persons themselves, their families bear the brunt …
Like any adolescent, José Gregorio has a head full of dreams, but growing up in the crowded neighbourhood of El Cementerio, in the Santa Rosalía Parish of southern Caracas, he knows his chances of …
For the past 11 years, armed conflict in north-east Nigeria has left thousands of people maimed. In a region with limited health facilities with roughly half of its facilities closed or destroyed , …
The application and interpretation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 have developed significantly in the more than sixty years since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) first …
22-08-2021 Cairo (ICRC / ERC) – The Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERCS), in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has started distributing 335 tons of food aid, 19 …
Dili, Timor-Leste – Timor-Leste is currently facing a surge of COVID-19 cases in different districts. In supporting the government's effort to fight COVID-19, the International Committee of the Red …
Statement During the recent unrest in parts of South Africa, dozens of medical facilities were destroyed, pharmacies looted, and countless vaccines and other critical medicines were stolen. As a …
It is the middle of a bad season in northern Mali, an area facing a devastating humanitarian crisis compounded by climate change and conflict. During seasons like this, herders used to travel with …
In the first half of 2021, the ICRC offices in Baku and Barda continued its activities to deliver effective humanitarian response in relation to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict . During the first six …
One of the greatest challenges Palestinians face in the occupied Palestinian territories is climate change. Several climate-change trends are expected to intensify throughout the West Bank in 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.
