Olivia Hill has worked in numerous humanitarian emergencies across the world. The British midwife has just finished a year long mission with the ICRC in Myanmar and looks back on her time in the …
… enable them to apply for further studies or jobs, Eritrean and Ethiopian nationals had …
Through our physical rehabilitation programme and the Special Fund for the Disabled, the ICRC aims to help anyone with a disability. This includes including victims of armed conflict, other …
Brazil was headed for the peak in its first wave of cases and deaths from COVID-19 in 2020 when the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) gave photographers and journalists in three …
The Physical Rehabilitation Programme was set up in 1979. Although the ICRC had previously carried out some physical rehabilitation activities, the programme’s creation marked the beginning of a …
… Let the humanitarian workers do their jobs. If an eight-year-old girl needs food, …
… for us," says Kadija, a widow who finds odd jobs to support her family. "But it's not …
African forensic science experts have started exploring latest techniques and approaches ensuring the dignified identification and management of the dead to enable them to help communities affected …
To reach out to communities that need to be heard, journalists and photographers often put themselves at risk to cover underreported stories. They provide valuable information to those in need and …
The conflict in north-eastern Nigeria has left thousands of women widowed . Lacking a formal education, many have been reduced to begging and are unable to feed their children . Working with local …
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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.
