Facts and figures: January to December 2020 In 2020, the ICRC's humanitarian activities mainly focused on responding to two major crises caused by the COVID-19 outbreak and fighting in Northern …
Families in Maguindanao face instability wrought by protracted armed conflicts and the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of families in Maguindanao , Southern Philippines were forced to flee several times …
The explosion, which shook Beirut on August 4th, left over 200 people dead and over 6000 injured. On top of a spiraling economic crisis and a raging coronavirus pandemic, Lebanon was already in a …
Maintaining a dialogue with militaries and armed groups is an integral part of our operations around the world to encourage the awareness and compliance to the laws of armed conflict and other …
Engaging in dialogue with people who carry arms and use force – including the military, police and security forces – is an integral part of its operations around the world. If you’re a mid- to …
Throughout 2020, the ICRC offices in Baku and Barda continued to deliver an effective humanitarian response to people affected by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict . During the year, the outbreak of the …
“My son turned one on the very first day of war. We had laid the table and had a birthday cake to celebrate.” A birthday that will live long in Narine's memory, for all the wrong reasons. The …
KUALA LUMPUR – While COVID-19 remains a clear and present threat in all places of detention in Malaysia, it is not the only health challenge the facilities have been contending with. No different to …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Colombo and the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute of Sri Lanka (BIDTI) are co-organizing a series of webinars …
Three years may have passed since violence ravaged the central region of Kasai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but thousands of families are still struggling to return to normal. Farming is …
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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.
