Life has been tough for the people of northern Mali in recent years. Harvests have failed because of drought and flooding, and two million people face food shortages. Economic turmoil has unleashed …
Mr Himnath Dawadi, Director General of the Prison Management Division, the jailor and other officials responsible for Dilli Bazaar prison were joined by the ICRC's Kathmandu delegation at a handover …
Perspectives and pledges of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on the occasion of the World Humanitarian Summit On the eve of the first World Humanitarian Summit , the …
This ICRC reference document applies to relief items purchased by the ICRC. It contains the most important references to existing international standards for requirements in: Quality Management …
Hostilities almost always break our unexpectedly for ordinary people, and those with a job, a home and a family have to flee for their lives. While some are luckier than others, finding relatives who …
"The possibility of something new in our past." This is how one participant described an ICRC gathering in São Paolo for relatives of people who disappeared during the military regime in Brazil …
Peter Gill is a journalist specializing in developing world affairs and author of four books. His latest, Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How foreign aid became a casualty of war …
As humanitarians explore new technologies and innovation, how can local communities shape the technologies best suited for their needs? A pilot project in two informal settlements in Kenya and South …
It has been almost a year since Dunia Gul, a farmer and father of 12 children, fled with his family from Abdul-khil in eastern Afghanistan to Achin Bazaar, an hour and a half by car from Jalalabad. …
Gérard is 13 years old. He was separated from his parents and then his brother when a wave of violence swept through Burundi in April 2015. He is now a refugee in Rwanda. I used sit alone and wonder …
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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.
