The document presents a list of questions (a checklist or compatibility study) that cover some of the main challenges related to the protection of health care during armed conflict and other …
To successfully reduce the occurrence of incidents of violence against health care and mitigate their impact, adequate rules in domestic legislation and regulations are required. This document is …
Statement Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the UNSC Open Debate on the Protection of Objects Indispensable to the survival of the …
A 12 sq m room in Ghazni city, Afghanistan, is a world of milestones for 51-year-old Gulshah. Here, she sees how her family learnt to survive in an unfamiliar environment, her nine children growing …
"Would you believe me if I said that I feel jealous when I see parents visiting the graves of their sons? I keep asking myself: 'don't I deserve even this?'" Ashot's* son fought in last year's …
23-04-2021 Bogotá (ICRC) – The vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Gilles Carbonnier, reaffirmed the organization's commitment to the people and communities of …
German-Jordanian University offers first Middle Eastern master’s degree programme in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in partnership with the humanitarian sector Initially planned for October 2020 and …
Keynote speech by Jerome Fontana, head of the ICRC Cairo Delegation at the ‘Human Rights: Building the Post Pandemic World’ conference in Cairo Excellences, Ladies and gentlemen, We are now in the …
Just like every morning for the past nine years, Claudia Ortega arrives at the primary health care centre in Boca de Grita to provide medical care at the only health care facility available to the …
Geneva (ICRC) – The family members of 14 people who were unaccounted for in connection with the armed conflict of 1992-1993 in Abkhazia were informed that their loved ones were positively identified …
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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.
