Communities and families in the Khagrachari, Bandarban and Rangamati districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts, in southern Bangladesh have been struggling to sustain their livelihoods. Since mid-2014, the …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has extended its support of physical rehabilitation centres in Sudan to a seventh facility, in El Obaid in North Kordofan State. The ICRC offered …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would like to confirm that the video currently circulating in the media does indeed show its staff member, Nourane Houas. Nourane was abducted …
Sana’a / Geneva, 12 August 2016 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement mourns the death of another volunteer from the Yemen Red Crescent Society. Khalid Abdullah, a 65-year-old Red …
PMI and ICRC distributing spectacles and offering cataract surgery in the center highland areas of Papua. Credit: ICRC After a tragic incident in 2013, the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has stepped up …
Yemen's dreadful conflict has entered its second year with huge and urgent humanitarian needs. Ordinary people have paid the price for the violence which has left millions of Yemenis in urgent need …
15-08-2016 The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, has described the fight for the Syrian city of Aleppo as one of the most devastating conflicts in modern times. …
Despite the ongoing efforts to achieve peace in Myanmar, fighting continues in northern Shan and in Kachin . Over 100,000 people are still displaced and thousands more affected by conflict and in …
Together with the Lebanese Internal Security forces (ISF), the ICRC finalized the rehabilitation of a district prison in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon. This is the second of seven projects targeting …
Lack of space and ventilation, as well as limited access to health and paralegal services—these are just some of the critical issues that the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) deals with …
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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.
