Panama: Humanitarian Report 2024
In close collaboration with the Panamanian Red Cross, we work to provide a humanitarian response to migrants after their journey through the Darien region. Learn more in our 2024 activity report. The …
In close collaboration with the Panamanian Red Cross, we work to provide a humanitarian response to migrants after their journey through the Darien region. Learn more in our 2024 activity report. The …
12-03-2024 Maputo (ICRC) – Nearly 100,000 people, more than half of them children, have been displaced in one month due to an escalation of armed violence in Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique. The …
The upsurge in armed conflict and other situations of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is taking a devastating humanitarian toll, especially in the east of the country. Read our …
“We are 100 per cent sure we will win this competition,” said Tao Chanda, a player in the Cambodian women’s wheelchair basketball team, just ahead of a 5x5 match against the Laotian team at the …
With escalating risks of armed conflicts and clashes at sea, which are vital trade routes for many countries in the Asia-Pacific, the need for effective law enforcement at sea has become paramount. …
10-03-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Qatar on Sunday to discuss the desperate humanitarian situation in relation to the armed …
Geneva (ICRC) – Five months into the escalation of hostilities, which began with the horrific events in Israel on 7 October, the situation in the Gaza Strip degenerates by the hour. There is nowhere …
Najah from Idlib After years of displacement due to the conflict, Najah returned to her beloved town of Khan Sheikon in Idlib. Determined to re-establish her place in the community as an expert in …
07-03-2024 Nairobi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launches food deliveries in Somali prisons for the month of Ramadan. Over the next four weeks, it plans to distribute …
The ICRC will attend the third edition of the European Humanitarian Forum (EHF), taking place Monday 18 - Tuesday 19 March 2024 in Brussels and livestreamed via the EHF website. The European …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.