COVID-19 represents a dramatic threat to life in war-torn countries. The ICRC and its Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement partners exist for emergency situations like the COVID-19 pandemic; we have …
30-03-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – It will be nearly impossible to fight COVID-19 in countries already devastated by conflict unless a concerted response by states and humanitarian organizations is launched …
Internal displacement is an increasingly urban phenomenon. This is partly because in a quickly urbanizing world, when cities become sites of armed conflict and other violence, greater numbers are …
Ensuring assistance and protection addresses the needs of marginalized and at-risk people. This paper brings together guidance and messages from the ICRC's Operations Diversity Inclusion, Sexual …
27-03-2020 Geneva, 27 March 2020 –-The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has launched a revised emergency appeal for 800 million Swiss francs to help the world's most vulnerable …
Governments around the world are quickly implementing measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 and protect their citizens. Many governments are setting up quarantine centres and their armed forces …
26-03-2020 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on 26 March 2020 launched a revised emergency appeal for 800 million Swiss francs (823 million US dollars) to help the world's most …
The coronavirus pandemic disease (COVID-19) is unprecedented in recent history and is spreading rapidly. It is not only a public health crisis, but also a humanitarian crisis in the making. In …
As COVID-19 focuses the world’s attention on infectious diseases, we have our eyes on one of the most dangerous places for the spread of such outbreaks: prisons, where densely packed people and …
To be a doctor, one has multiple challenges to overcome. To be a woman doctor in Pakistan , what else would it take ? Talking about their work, and the paths that led to operating in the ER, …
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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.
