Statement Damascus – Ten years of crisis in Syria has left an estimated 11.5 million people living with the risk of landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). With swathes of the country turned …
In the last three years, the Gaza Strip has seen around one accident caused by explosive remnants of war every month. The large number of weapons that have been leftover in the Gaza Strip conflict as …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is worried by the recent surge of violence in Palma, Cabo Delgado Province of Mozambique. The most recent round of clashes, which started on March …
Tokyo (ICRC) – The United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which has been held every five years since 1995, was organized this year in Kyoto, Japan, from 7 to 12 March. …
Nassima Nassima, a forty-year-old mother of two (Jana, 8 years and Moussa, 5 years), says: “My husband, who works abroad, used to send us money just to make ends meet and I used to borrow from …
What are "information disorders"? What impact do they have on conflict and other situations of violence? And how can humanitarians better understand them and mitigate their negative effects? Building …
The ICRC estimates that between 60 and 80 million people live under the exclusive control of non-State armed groups, and many more in areas in which non-States armed groups operate. Equitable access …
Roughly 510 km from Kabul, Badakhshan's provincial capital Faizabad sits high at an altitude of 1,200 m above sea level. The mountainous province of Badakhshan is home to around 1.5 million people …
Statement Statement by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Brussels V Conference: Supporting the future of Syria and the region 30 March 2021, via video …
30-03-2021 Today, under the auspices of the Tripartite Commission, the remains of an Iraqi soldier gone missing during the 1990-1991 Gulf War were handed over from the State of Kuwait to the Republic …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
