Rosa's children share a hammock, but she has to sleep in a different one, without her husband. "We don't all fit into one," she explained to the staff of the ICRC when they asked her how many …
This World Humanitarian Day, we celebrate women who provide life-saving aid to people affected by armed conflict. Women play an important role in humanitarian response, from physical rehabilitation …
Abdulkareem Haruna: Reporting for the past 20 years at Premium Times Newspaper I never envisaged that this would happen in Nigeria. I have covered politics and domestic crime and other related issues …
The ICRC recognises the need to better address the issue of social inclusion in the physical rehabilitation services it provides globally. To do this, it teamed up with the Adecco Group Foundation to …
Struggle for a better future: Overcoming crippling unemployment in Gaza and West Bank The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is happy to announce 2019 edition of its photo competition. …
… had been unemployed and was doing delivery jobs here and there. He left home one evening …
… by fishing in the pond and doing whatever odd jobs we can find but it is not enough. Since …
This new ICRC flipbook contains over 50 one-page techniques that use art, music or theatre to engage with different audiences. Imagine that you're in front of a group of forty people . In the next …
… not wheelchair accessible and many available jobs require physical strength. The situation … by the side of the road, one of his first jobs as a teenager. Each time a car would stop …
… need to go to school safely. Adults need jobs. And families need homes. These needs are …
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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.
