06-02-2018 Sana'a/Geneva (ICRC): Thousands of Yemenis with kidney failure are at risk of dying unless the country's remaining dialysis centres receive more supplies and its medical staff are paid, …
This year marks 20 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed. While the deal brought an end to the period in Northern Ireland known as 'the Troubles', ongoing violence still affects …
Five years ago, fighting on the border of Sudan and South Sudan split a community in two. Hundreds of families were separated when they fled the violence and lost contact with each other completely. …
Yacoob Idriss'* story is like that of many other children living in the Lake Chad region. One morning, armed men attacked his village, Doron Baga, in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno. They …
Geneva (ICRC) – The 12th meeting of the coordination mechanism seeking to account for people who went missing in connection with the conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 and their aftermath took …
Facts and figures The armed conflict in north-east Nigeria has had devastating humanitarian consequences for millions of people across the Lake Chad region. More than two million people have been …
The ICRC funded a public project that provided a month's salary for 1,000 impoverished people as part of its cash-for-work programme. Emmanuel now has enough money to continue paying for his …
10-02-2018 Abuja/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today facilitated the handover – from the armed opposition to the Nigerian military – of ten women police officers …
©ICRC On 11 February 2018, the ICRC and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) jointly organized a side-event entitled the 'Cyber Dimension of Humanitarian Action …
11-02-2018 Sana'a/Aden/Geneva (ICRC) – In an important breakthrough that will allow many families to know the fate of missing loved ones, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has just …
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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.
