15-12-2020 One month after ceasefire deal, deep humanitarian needs persist One month after a ceasefire deal in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict came into effect, hundreds of thousands of people remain …
“HE’S BEING MISSED AT THAT TABLE” Assessing the Needs of Family Members of Missing Persons during the Military Regime in Brazil: case “Perus' grave” REPORT At that table¹ He often sat at that table …
When collecting someone’s data to help them find a missing loved one, he or she has the right to transparency about what will happen to that data. This is explained in an ‘information notice’. This …
In collaboration with an academic institution in Greece Marcel Junod was a Swiss doctor and one of the most well-known ICRC delegates. In 1935, Junod decides to join ICRC's humanitarian mission in …
Occupying 222,500 square meters, the largest mosque in Yemen has been recently built. It followed the distinctive Yemeni architectural style, inspired by the style of the Grand Mosque in Sana’a built …
Addis Ababa / Geneva (ICRC) – A convoy carrying medicines and relief supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS), organized in …
Statement Statement to the 75th United Nations General Assembly plenary meeting on "Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations" As delivered by Ms. …
10-12-2020 ICRC plants saplings in the memory of those who went missing during the conflicts in former Yugoslavia during 1990s Belgrade (ICRC) – To mark Human Rights Day, the International Committee …
The Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) in Gujarat — an institution of national importance in India — and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in New Delhi on 10 …
In the department of Logone-et-Chari, in the Far North Region of Cameroon, heavy rainfall has destroyed 70 per cent of the sorghum, bean and rice fields. Hopes are being washed away in a part of the …
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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.
