Since 2019, the World Bank and ICRC have partnered to expand access to health care for conflict-affected and hard-to-reach communities in the states of Upper Nile and Jonglei. In the early morning …
… small businesses, and 415 others to find jobs (the ICRC covered 30% of their wages for … resources to access training or search for jobs, or adapt their businesses in line with … the pandemic. Nevertheless, 18 people found jobs with the ICRC’s help. Around 220 young …
… their basic needs, although many had petty jobs (36%), engaged in farming (22%) or …
… they place on general resources (land, water, jobs, essential services such as health care …
Report drawn up by the Advisory Service on international humanitarian law of the International Committee of the Red Cross following the Meeting of experts on national implementation of the rules for …
When Typhoon Haiyan swept through the Philippines in November 2013, it left widespread devastation in its wake. Over a million homes were destroyed. Together with the Philippine Red Cross, the ICRC …
Under the Myanmar Community Support Project (MCSP), the World Bank will continue to fund ICRC’s interventions to help vulnerable, violence-affected communities in Myanmar. Latest update September …
The ICRC acts as the guardian of international humanitarian law, a complex role that is closely connected with its own foundation and was later formally entrusted to it by the international …
07-03-2020 Sanaa/Geneva (ICRC) - Intense fighting on the frontline between Sanaa and Al Jawf Governorate in Northern Yemen has displaced tens of thousands of people to Marib Governorate, leaving …
This evaluation, completed in January 2021, assessed the most effective ways that the ICRC should implement "Inclusive Programming". This means ensuring that people and their needs are at the centre …
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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.
