The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) organized an online panel discussion on Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 14:00 CEST, to discuss and introduce its new report on Avoiding Civilian Harm …
Each day, all members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, especially the volunteers, work relentlessly to ease the suffering of those experiencing hardships such as those caused …
… from far away. "There's no water. There's no jobs," said Zuhura Fumo, a 23-year-old mother …
A lump on the forehead of Jose* developed soon after he was sent to jail in October 2012. What he thought was a "pimple" deteriorated over time. He has been detained for four years now in Navotas …
Five months after violence disrupted humanitarian operations in Rakhine state, the ICRC has restarted a full range of activities there for the Muslim and ethnic Rakhine communities alike. "The Muslim …
… or humanity. They want their lives back: jobs, functioning schools, safety for their … workers are not allowed to do their jobs. I must reinforce that aid is not a …
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 …
H.E.L.P. Course calendar for 2022 published The International Committee of the Red Cross had published the calendar of the Health Emergencies in Large Populations (H.E.L.P.) course for 2022. In …
Olivia Hill has worked in numerous humanitarian emergencies across the world. The British midwife has just finished a year long mission with the ICRC in Myanmar and looks back on her time in the …
ITC and the International Committee of the Red Cross sign Letter of Intent to expand collaboration in humanitarian and development nexus. (Geneva) The International Trade Centre (ITC) and the …
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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.
