To watch the city you love die is heart-breaking, yet this is a reality for many as wars are increasingly fought in urban areas. When wars are fought in cities, they devastate buildings and …
Ko Saw Chan Thar has always enjoyed creating beauty with his hands. He can draw, sculpt, make tattoos and give stylish haircuts. Though born with a physical deformity and facing many challenges, he …
Geneva (ICRC) – Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, will meet again with families of hostages today at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva. President …
This is a summary of the final report of the evaluation on the National Society Development initiative in Yemen. The evaluation focuses on assessing to which extent NSD support had contributed to the …
It is not every day you find a 65-year-old student in high school. Allan Ekel from Mulitaka in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, has an extraordinary story. Not only is he sharing a Grade 9 classroom …
12-11-2023 Jerusalem (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urgently calls for the protection of civilians in Gaza trapped in fighting, whether they are trying to evacuate or …
10-11-2023 Gaza (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is urgently calling for the respect and protection of medical facilities, patients and health-care workers in Gaza. …
The war in Colombia isn’t over, it’s simply changed: armed conflicts now dominate life here in the remotest regions of the country. Time and time again we see with our own eyes violations of …
When Nang Anm Phat was a child, she tripped and fell in her family’s farm in their remote village. The injury caused her severe pain and her family tried to treat her with herbal remedies and roots. …
Ko M* from Da Paing village in Sittwe, Rakhine State, had gone fishing in the Bay of Bengal along with six friends in 2017. But they did not come back and there was no news about their whereabouts. …
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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.
