For people living in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the past year of hostilities comes on top of nine years of grinding armed conflict. In many places, intense fighting has severely damaged or …
During the past year, the ICRC carried out a range of programmes and projects in Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam and Laos to benefit victims of violence and vulnerable people, including detainees and …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between July and September 2014. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and …
26-08-2020 Nairobi (ICRC)—As 30 August marks International Day of the Disappeared, nearly 44,000 people across Africa are registered as missing with the International Committee of the Red Cross …
In 2019, the ICRC continued to treat large numbers of people with injuries stemming from violence in South Sudan. Our medical staff performed over 3,000 surgical and medical procedures and more than …
ICRC procurement policy, information leaflet: Fundamental principles for doing business with the ICRC ICRC long-term relationships strategy ICRC active sourcing policy "QSE" requirements: Quality, …
By William Davies, Michika, Nigeria The only businesses open in the village of Gulak are a barber and a tailor. On the ground outside, two men sort through a pile of peanuts, two young girls walk …
The ICRC is drawing on its expertise in various fields to help alleviate suffering caused by armed violence in Venezuela. That means maintaining confidential dialogue with all weapon bearers on using …
PILLAGE IS PROHIBITED. ATTACKING, LOOTING AND PILLAGING OF PROPERTY WAS A VIOLATION OF DIGNITY. -- The Tallensi considered attacking, looting and pillaging of civilian property a violation of their …
Violence and fighting in the northern part of Ethiopia, severely impacted the civilian population during the year 2021. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes looking for shelter 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.
