For decades, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has significantly impacted the livelihood of people living in conflict-affected communities. The year 2020 was especially hard for them – first, due to the …
15-07-2021 Commercial activity in the Tigray region of Ethiopia is hampered by the ongoing crisis that began with fighting nine months ago. Over the last two weeks, since commercial traffic ground to …
The latest escalation which broke out in May 2021 in Gaza and Israel is one of the most intense hostilities that we, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), have witnessed in the region …
On the day Kaory returned to her home country of Honduras, her body was received by her father and siblings. It had been 13 days since her death in Mexico, and 10 years since she fled her homeland to …
The importance of the ICRC’s Middle East operations and the role of the RRN The Near and Middle East (NAME) accounts for 30% of the ICRC’s operations in 2021, with an aggregate budget figure of 604.4 …
The importance of the ICRC’s Middle East operations and the role of the RRN The Near and Middle East (NAME) accounts for 30% of the ICRC’s operations in 2021, with an aggregate budget figure of 604.4 …
There’s an old Yemeni saying that if you truly want to know how people are feeling, you should look into their eyes. The eyes reveal everything. Panic, loss, despair, death, fear – I’ve seen it all …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has set up medical waste management services as part of our support to health complexes in Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh to develop …
After ten years of independence in South Sudan, Junior Ali agreed to show us around. Junior Ali works for ICRC in South Sudan. For the country's 10th anniversary of independence, he agreed to take …
The families of missing persons often speak of the challenge of living with the ‘not knowing’ what has happened, what the future holds or where to turn for help. Misconceptions also exist about who …
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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.
