… In November 2016, ICRC director of … is a call for action, but also for caution, care and understanding when we work on the … the effects on their physical and mental health, and potential feelings of guilt or …
… Perspectives and pledges of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent … safety; sexual and gender based violence; health services in crisis. The report also … It is important therefore to always carefully balance these principles, to use …
… research study on the patterns of violence against healthcare in Karachi. The report can be accessed …
… to which women and girls may be subjected during armed conflict or in other situations of … their access to food, safe drinking water and health care. It may leave them as the head of the …
… 26th session, Human Rights Council The International Committee of the Red Cross … their access to food, safe drinking water and health care. It may leave them as the head of the …
… Colombia has had to contend with escalating violence and armed conflict as well as the … is taking an immense toll on the mental health of affected communities and making it … a regrettable record of attacks on health-care workers, facilities and vehicles, and …
… Leer, Mayendit, and Koch counties in Unity state of South Sudan have been … medicines and medical equipment in a Primary Healthcare Center (PHCC) supported by the ICRC. "We …
… Statement Statement by Dominik Stillhart, director of global operations … access to schools, farm fields, markets and health care. How can families move forward? To …
… 17-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Seven years of raging conflict in Yemen has exhausted the … The access to essential needs such as basic health care is also dangerously limited in several …
… As COVID-19 focuses the world’s attention on infectious diseases, we have our eyes on one … packed people and (often) limited access to health care make for a risky situation. Overcrowding, …
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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.
