15-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be giving real-time updates for media during the release and transfer of detainees from the Yemen conflict. Facts …
In an exclusive interview with 105.3 Afro FM, Head of ICRC Delegation to the African Union(ADO), Mr. Bruce Mokaya Orina reflected on the delegation`s activities. Mr Mokaya conveyed his perception of …
14-10-2020 Juba/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated the release of three people, including two Sudanese nationals, deprived of their freedom in South …
Since the outbreak of the armed conflict in Kosovo, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been collecting information about the concerns and issues faced by the families of missing …
The devastating impact of a virus has been experienced in Lebanon in the past. Naji Yazbek is a survivor of polio and a lifelong user of orthotic services. Naji contracted the virus when he was just …
13-10-2020 Today, we are more than two weeks into a period of intense violence as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict escalates . We estimate there are hundreds of thousands of people affected across the …
10-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the agreement on the humanitarian ceasefire of the escalating Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and stands ready, in …
On October 10th, many people across the globe will mark World Mental Health Day with the objective of raising awareness of mental health issues. World Mental Health Day is a day set aside globally …
This document provides an overview of the methodology that should be used for calculating household income and expenditure in a survey in order to ensure high standards in data collection and …
Juba (ICRC) – As October 10th marks World Mental Health Day, an untold number of people in South Sudan are struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems caused by conflict and …
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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.
