25-08-2020 Beirut/Geneva (ICRC) – Three weeks after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut port and surrounding neighbourhoods, the physical and psychological damage it inflicted is staggering. At …
The essay competition on International Humanitarian Law aims to encourage scholarship on IHL examined in the context of the Philippines by Filipino academics and practitioners. Prizes The winner of …
25-08-2020 Nairobi (ICRC)—Primary health care visits and vaccination coverage have sharply declined in Somalia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, raising concerns that diseases such as respiratory …
Following a resolution adopted by the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, between 2015 and 2019 Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) jointly …
COVID-19 RESPONSE IN BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN CONE COUNTRIES C. de Almeida/ICRC BRASILIA REGIONAL DELEGATION / JUNE-JULY 2020 In light of the pandemic, the ICRC Regional Delegation adapted its modus …
Health Strategy 2020–2023 builds on Health Strategy 2014–2018 and addresses the increasing volume of unmet humanitarian health needs, many of which result from: protracted conflict, poverty and …
Diabetes and its complications represent an increasing global challenge. This guidance document has been created to help clinical teams in the field to organize care for diabetic patients at primary …
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the ICRC in Belgrade has been in close contact with the authorities and Red Cross societies in the region to provide support, advice and training to staff and …
Neither Luis, Jorge, or Lisseth were born in the city of Santa Elena de Uairén, in the state of Bolívar, but due to different life circumstances, they were all in Santa Elena when the COVID-19 …
20-08-2020 Geneva (ICRC)— War-torn Libya's COVID-19 cases have increased more than 15-fold in less than two months, spiking from 571 in June to more than 9,000 today . More than half a million people …
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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.
