Professional Standards for Protection Work
Professional Standards for Protection Work (third edition) constitutes a set of minimum but essential standards aimed at ensuring that protection work carried out by human rights and humanitarian …
Professional Standards for Protection Work (third edition) constitutes a set of minimum but essential standards aimed at ensuring that protection work carried out by human rights and humanitarian …
In health emergencies as in periods of stability, restoring access to primary health-care services is a priority in so far as many problems can be dealt with by means of preventive care and …
The globilization of market economies offers new opportunities for business enterprises and they also give rise to risks. As business enterprises explore these opportunities, they are increasingly …
After six years of expert discussions and research, the ICRC has published the "Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law", which …
The Montreux Document is the result of an international process launched by the Government of Switzerland and the ICRC. It is an intergovernmental document intended to promote respect for …
This booklet contains the text of the "Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction" adopted on 18 September 1997 by …
This handbook is the result of lessons learned by the ICRC from implementing microeconomic initiatives (MEIs) in various countries. An MEI is an income-generating programme that takes a bottom-up …
This poster is meant for all healthcare staff and is to be displayed in healthcare settings. It visually compiles helpful attitudes, reactions, and behaviors health-care staff should observe to …
As humanitarians explore new technologies and innovation, how do they make sure these developments empower the people who need them most? A pilot project in two informal settlements in Kenya and …
This booklet contains the proceedings of an event co-organized by the ICRC and the World Jewish Congress to mark 70 years since the end of the Shoah. The discussion provided an occasion to share …
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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.