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 …
16 May 2019, Butembo. A family member mourns the death of a relative who is a victim of Ebola. The funeral is conducted under police supervision One of the most important elements of the culture of …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Health in Detention Team is looking for a contractual partner with experience related to Information Technology/Computer Science for the design and …
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Tanganyika Province, the armed violence that has raged for the past three years has seriously compromised access to health care. People living north-west …
How can drones support humanitarian operations? What type of information are they able to collect? And how can humanitarian organizations make use of their benefits - without creating new risks? To …
Fact sheet explaining what it means to implement international humanitarian law at the national level, whose responsibility it is to do so, what general measures must be adopted and how this can be …
Factsheet explaining the provisions of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). In particular, the following questions are addressed: what is the object and purpose of the ATT? To what arms does the ATT apply? …
Gillies Carbonnier, the vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), recently travelled to Honduras and El Salvador. At the end of his six-day trip, he concluded that the …
Goma (ICRC) – Following recent demonstrations and other violence around North Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 120 wounded people are being treated at Beni General …
No one can address these challenges alone, we must work together. A little over a year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world down to its knees. No country was spared the wrath, revealing how …
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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.
