Cox's Bazar – Having provided medical care to over 100,000 patients across Cox's Bazar over the past year, the renovated emergency department of Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital marked its first …
For 30 years now, Felix Soal has dedicated his life to patient care at the Mendi General Hospital in Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. During his long career in health care, Soal has seen many …
Maribel Ramírez has worked as an emergency room nurse at Domingo Luciani hospital for nine years and has never felt such a strong conviction to help save lives as she does now. "As health care …
COVID-19 stigmatization: People needing health care find it harder than ever to access health services Violence against people associated with COVID-19 has risen dramatically in various countries …
In June 2020, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) continued to support national authorities, health-care facilities, places of detention and the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) to respond …
With more than half a million deaths recorded globally, the COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the worst health crisis the world has faced in modern times. It has come as a reminder not only of the …
In November 2001, 20 young men left their homes in Jogimara village, central Nepal, to work on an airport runway in Kotbada, some 800 km away in mid-western Nepal. Four months later, it was reported …
Water and sanitation personnel show extraordinary dedication in some of the most difficult of places – war zones. Their efforts go largely unrecognized, and now they face the additional burden of …
On 28 November 2019, the ICRC was invited to give a speech on "The Cutting Edge of IHL and Applied Buddhist Principles," at the first International Conference on Buddhist Ethics, Education, and …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Sanata Dharma University co-hosted a workshop on inter-denominational Christian ethics and international humanitarian law (IHL). Held in …
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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.
