"I have walked on a journey to hell, lost and stripped of everything," says Warame Pokana, slowly reliving the details of July 2019 as she has done many times over in her mind. The slash marks on her …
For the last two years, Freya Raddi has overseen the ICRC's assistance programmes in Yemen. As she finishes her mission, the aid worker says she wants to return to Yemen one day, but not as a …
17-03-2020 On the eve of World Water Day, observed on March 22nd, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) takes stock of its relief efforts in northern Brazil, where communities suffer …
Professionals with a background in health, disaster management, water, sanitation, food and economic security, and logistics attended the 4th edition of the Regional HELP (Health Emergencies in Large …
The International Committee of the Red Cross expresses its deep concern over the intrusion by armed men into the office of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) branch in Idlib and the sub-branch in …
“We suffered at lot having our deliveries at home,” says heavily pregnant Ottilia Alberto who is staying at the Casa Mãe Espera. The 23-year-old who is having her third child travels around 14 …
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Antonio Mongwani looks over the grave of his three-year-old son Fernando who was swept away in the floods that followed Cyclone Idai. He shares with us that he regularly visits the grave situated in …
13-03-2020 Aleppo/Geneva (ICRC) – As the crisis in Syria moves into its tenth year, the needs of the people who have endured so much are vast and complex. The statistics are stark: more than 11 …
ICRC’s forensic specialist relives his experience during the worst cyclones to hit Africa and the southern hemisphere. It's been one year since Cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and …
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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.
