This year, in celebration of International Women's Day, we asked some of our incredible colleagues to share their wisdom and experience with us: " What advice would you give to your younger self? " …
06-03-2021 Today, under the umbrella of the Tripartite Commission nine human remains including a Saudi citizen, among the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia missing persons list, gone missing during the …
The search for ways to improve our collective response has led the World Bank, UNICEF and the ICRC to publish a new report today called, “Joining Forces to Combat Protracted Crises: Humanitarian and …
05-03-2021 Ouagadougou (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed that acts of armed violence in Burkina Faso continue to target civilians, the sick, health-care workers …
The ICRC’s head of operations in Ethiopia, Jeremy England, sets out his main humanitarian concerns about the situation in northern Ethiopia and calls on all parties to protect civilians. It's the …
4 March 2021 — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been closely monitoring the recent developments across Myanmar and is seriously concerned about the increasingly violent …
What role do humanitarian organizations play in providing social protection services? How can they best collaborate with other providers? And how can they maintain a neutral, impartial and …
04-03-2021 Communities in nine out of the ten states in South Sudan harvested on average 50 per cent less cereal and vegetables in 2020 than they did in 2019, the latest assessment by the …
The second edition of this manual on the use of plaster of Paris (POP) and other immobilization methods for limb fractures was written in collaboration with physiotherapists working in the field. It …
After 35 years of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross 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.
