Astan Agrba, Sukhum/i “As an archaeologist I have gained invaluable practical experience with the ICRC in exhuming human remains. The process includes searching for potential burial sites, proper …
Arif Khan has a dignified gait as he walks slowly up to his autorickshaw and gets ready for a ride just as he has been doing since he got the vehicle in February. Driving an autorickshaw in Bajaur …
How the ICRC-supported hospital in Mopti responded to the COVID-19 pandemic: an interview with Shabani Majaliwa, anaesthesiologist Shabani Majaliwa has been working as an anesthesiologist for the …
… or humanity. They want their lives back: jobs, education, safety. And they want hope – …
… Masoud Samimi / ICRC When there were no more jobs available, Alberto started up vocational …
… with stories of people who lost their jobs or were socially excluded. The situations …
… homes in the fighting or aftermath. People's jobs and livelihoods have been hard hit. …
It could be hard to imagine that such turquoise waters have ever witnessed a conflict between belligerents, destruction, or displacement of people. This is the Red Sea Coast in Zubab, Bab El Mandeb …
"I get really sad when I think about the hardest things about my job. It's never easy recovering a dead body, especially if it's a child, but the chance to give family members some peace of mind is …
… 2017. • P&O in Togo have difficulty finding jobs after graduation. Our engagement in the … of the UNCRPD, and workshops on creating jobs for PwDs and international cooperation in … with our support, left the SEOP to seek jobs abroad – in part, because of the …
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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.
