Myrtle Sammy is one of five registered nurses in Papua New Guinea who was sponsored by the ICRC to study midwifery. After graduating top of her class, she now looks to share her knowledge and skills …
Within the context of its on-going efforts to ensure that an outbreak of COVID-19 is prevented in correctional facilities in Jordan, the ICRC provided personal hygiene items for inmates and …
11-05-2020 Geneva – Nurses and other health care workers on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 deserve to be recognized and commended for their life-saving efforts and personal sacrifices …
COVID-19 has made no exceptions. Faced with the same demon, our collective vulnerabilities lie exposed in the wake of this pandemic. The novel coronavirus represents a major threat to life in …
On 12 May 2020, we will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. The World Health Assembly has designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, who are …
Celebrating the amazing work of health care workers and volunteers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, we mark the World Red Cross and Red Crescent day during unprecedented …
Following the recent increase in armed violence in the Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique, several thousands of people were forced to flee to Pemba, seeking safety. The ICRC, Mozambique Red Cross …
Mexico City - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Mexican Red Cross are greatly concerned about the rising number of attacks on health care workers and health facilities in …
As cholera, measles and other chronic diseases continue to kill thousands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country is also grappling with COVID-19. The ICRC is adapting its support …
“I came home, thinking, and I started to cry there all over. Oh god, why is all of this happening to me!?” In one year, Nora's whole life fell apart. Before the anglophone crisis, everything was …
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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.
