Physiotherapy within ICRC
This manual presents an overview of physiotherapy related to physiotherapy activities in ICRC/ICRC supported projects as well as some recommendations. It is addressed mainly to physiotherapists but …
This manual presents an overview of physiotherapy related to physiotherapy activities in ICRC/ICRC supported projects as well as some recommendations. It is addressed mainly to physiotherapists but …
This issue is a collection of articles drown from the four issues of the International Review of the Red Cross of the year 2009. The themes are the following: displacement, typology of armed …
This publication covers the years 1956-1965, a decade that was profoundly marked by heightening tensions in the Cold War. Among other events, the book examines the Hungarian uprising of October 1956, …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Nursing Guidelines are designed to provide the direction and guidance necessary to ensure that all hospital staff members delivering nursing care …
This publication is the result of a major international study into current state practice in international humanitarian law in order to identify customary law in this area. Presented in two volumes, …
In many growing cities, migrant communities face multiple levels of marginalization, lack key services and live in neglected, sometimes uncharted neighbourhoods. The Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine …
In many cases, the simple act of giving money — instead of only material goods — may be the most efficient and effective way to give people the buying power they need to direct their own recovery. …
Red Cross Red Crescent magazine, Issue 2-2016, focuses on “Humanity under fire” — the ongoing disrespect for international humanitarian law (IHL) we see in conflicts around the world: hospitals …
This guide provides recommendations for devising policies and strategies and for developing and implementing practical measures to prevent violence against patients, health-care workers and …
Dying for a better life; Horn of Africa faces a new dilemma; Migrants: 'Anywhere that is safe', The border of broken dream; A planet of extreme: climate versus new technologies and A stronger base …
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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.