In 2019 Venezuela experienced an increase in social tensions, and its economic and social situation deteriorated, giving rise to a shortage of essential goods, health care, and other essential …
Luzan Jubeh Luzan, who is eight-years-old and lives in Jerusalem, dreams of becoming an engineer. “I want to become an engineer to create buildings and make the world a beautiful place. I will fulfil …
07-03-2020 Sanaa/Geneva (ICRC) - Intense fighting on the frontline between Sanaa and Al Jawf Governorate in Northern Yemen has displaced tens of thousands of people to Marib Governorate, leaving …
Essayist Anais Nin said, "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." It is this fortitude that women like Ho Chanty and Momtaz, along with others whose stories we narrate in the …
… the young Lim Kim Mooi applied for nine jobs, including one to become a police …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expanded its response to meet Libya ’s growing humanitarian needs in 2019. The resumption of large-scale hostilities in April 2019 combined with …
… need to be cleared of unexploded ammunition. Jobs and other sources of income need to be …
… reason. Her parents believed that respectable jobs suited for women were either teaching or … aggression towards practitioners whose jobs are to save lives is never acceptable. …
12-04-2020 Tunis (ICRC)—Hundreds of thousands of Libyans are caught in an intensifying conflict as COVID-19 threatens to spread and debilitate the country's fragile health system. The International …
… those occupying temporary or precarious jobs or relying on daily wages to subsist also …
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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.
