This is the executive summary of the evaluation of the ICRC's crisis management and response to the COVID-19 pandemic . It includes a summary of the management response to recommendations. The …
… the only option. They leave behind their jobs and studies, belongings, security, hopes …
In the heart of Myanmar's Kayin State, the Hpa-An Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Centre (HORC) has been serving the community since it was set up in 2003. Run by the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) with …
… as well as activities that help people find jobs, learn new languages and support …
The Florence Nightingale Medal is awarded to nurses who display exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster or to those who display exemplary service in the …
An eleven-year partnership with the Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) Hospital and the ICRC came to a successful and sustainable closure by end 2022. The ICRC's …
This is a summary of the final report of the evaluation of the Support Relationships in Armed Conflicts Initiative (SRI), a five-year strategy (2019-2023) aimed at broadening the ICRC's engagement …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided emergency assistance to over 1,500 displaced families who are currently living in Myaning Gyi Ngu, Ohn Taw, Khamamaung town and their …
Our social inclusion project is offering people with disabilities equal opportunities to showcase their knowledge and skills, ability to learn, work and be gainfully employed in Ethiopia. Through …
The trauma of displacement, the debilitating pain of polio and the scars of discrimination are not visible when Noor Islam Amirzai, part of Afghanistan’s national cricket team for people with …
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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.
