The International Committee of the Red Cross family remembers Spanish physiotherapist Lorena Enebral Perez, 38, a passionate and dedicated professional who was killed in Afghanistan on Sept. 11. The …
11-10-2017 ICRC, IFRC, and UNOCHA release a brief guide for humanitarians. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies …
Three years after they were set up, three physical rehabilitation centres have been handed over to the Indus Hospital Network by the ICRC. Over 14,000 people with disabilities have so far benefited …
14-11-2017 Dakar/Geneva (ICRC) – The precarious security situation in Africa's Sahel region is overshadowing a massive humanitarian crisis affecting 12 million people in five countries, the …
The phone rings on a Friday afternoon. The ICRC’s contact on the ground in Torit, a town in the south of the country, has requested an evacuation of three children wounded by gunshots. They need to …
This factsheet provides a summary of the activities that the ICRC carries out for vulnerable migrants and their families in the Americas. It explains our approach and describes what we, together with …
Water is life Clean drinking water is a priority in Rakhine. Communities displaced by the recent violence have been digging the ground to find water, using nearby ponds, and seawater for cooking and …
… of life, and increase competition for limited jobs is also part of such antimigrant …
In a social media age when each of us can denounce violations, ICRC's confidential approach saves lives. The ICRC works on the ground in conflict zones. We provide people caught up in the fighting …
… that although most of the women do numerous jobs to try to make ends meet, making and …
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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.
