01-09-2019 Geneva/Sanaa (ICRC) – A building serving as a detention facility in Yemen was destroyed in an airstrike, killing or injuring every detainee inside when the multi-story facility crumbled. …
In 2019, Libya entered its eighth year of insecurity and protracted conflict. Its economy is in crisis, basic infrastructure is damaged, security threats and severe shortages of cash liquidity have …
30-08-2019 Pristina (ICRC) – A theatrical play titled The Stools , directed by renowned Kosovo director Fadil Hysaj and supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was staged …
Rowena's days are filled with longing. She still hopes to find her partner Anton, a construction worker who went missing in the 2017 Marawi conflict. As in many other countries in the world, the …
30-08-2019 Baghdad (ICRC) – The families of hundreds of thousands of missing Iraqis marked the International Day of the Disappeared on Friday, as the office of Iraq's Prime Minister pledged to …
30-08-2019 Juba (ICRC) – As the world marks the International Day of Missing Persons, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is following more than 4,000 cases of missing South Sudanese. …
It had been 44 years since Samson and his uncle Sampinya left their home in Dite, Zimbabwe and headed across the Limpopo River into South Africa in search of better opportunities to be able to …
“The place where the sun rises.” That is the direct translation of Mpumalanga, a province situated in the north-east of South Africa. Just a few weeks ago, it lived up to its name as a family who had …
It’s a crumbled pocket-sized piece of paper. It appears to have been torn out of a notebook with zig-zagged edges. Strewn across the small page are scribbled cellphone numbers with different country …
The past decade has seen a surge in the use of mobile telecommunications, messaging apps and social media. As they become more accessible around the world, these technologies are also being used by …
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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.
