04-06-2020 Brazil (ICRC) - The situation in Brazil is worrisome. The rising death toll from the new coronavirus has made it one of the most affected countries by the pandemic, with more than 32,000 …
To some, home means everything. To us, how they get there is just as important. Nearly 25,000 detainees, out of almost 100,000 in Myanmar, were recently released following this year's Presidential …
The International Committee of the Red Cross, along with the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society, carried out an emergency relief distribution drive in 24 districts of the country. Those receiving the aid …
After a 600 km long ride back home to northern Kurigram district, when Rehana saw her brother she forgot her own fatigue and cared for him instead. T.A. Sheonty / ICRC Taznoor Ahmad Sheonty, a BDRCS …
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has partnered with Facebook to encourage a continued vigilance against COVID-19 through a virtual festival dubbed #AfricaTogether. The event will …
For the release of the second edition of the Data Protection Handbook for Humanitarian Action , the ICRC has convened a panel of experts to discuss how, in today's technological landscape, data …
An ICRC delegate from County Kildare, Ireland, reflects on her three missions in the South American country. Audrey Purcell O'Dwyer recently took up a new role with the ICRC in Geneva, as an …
03-06-2020 • In Nigeria, 95 per cent of people we talked to told us their sources of income have suffered • In Iraq, 83 per cent of people told us livelihoods have suffered • In Ukraine, 75 per cent …
Gubio, one of the many camps for displaced people in Maiduguri, is currently home to 38,000 people. In the past few months, some 250 families have arrived. Around two million people in the north-east …
In collaboration with the ICRC, internationally acclaimed musician, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, is using her voice to fight misinformation against COVID-19 . Misconceptions, rumours and misinformation about …
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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.
