Lucie Florance and her mother fled from Tshikapa in the DRC to Angola when armed violence broke out. Not long after their arrival, her mother fell ill and died, leaving the 11-year-old alone. Since …
The 5th Commonwealth Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) was a commemoration of 70 years of the Geneva Conventions as much as a forum to deliberate on …
During 2019, the ICRC expanded its operations in the country in order to respond to the most urgent needs of the Venezuelan population in an impartial, neutral and independent manner, in cooperation …
Story by Mari Aftret Mortvedt, ICRC The Al Hol camp in Syria is filled with children , mostly from Syria , but there are faces from every continent. In fact, two-thirds of the 70,000 people living in …
Every 13 April, Lebanon commemorates the painful memory of the start of the 15-year-long civil war that raged from 1975 until 1990. The war left thousands of civilians wounded and thousands others …
In the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh , schools are often caught in the crossfire when violence erupts. In the Marj Ben Amer School, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) collaborated to host the fifth edition of the Military in Security Operations workshop in Phnom Penh …
The impact of the disappearance of a loved one is one of the most damaging and lasting humanitarian consequences of armed conflicts, other situations of violence, migration and natural disasters. The …
In the past seven years, the village of Bani Sakhr on the northern Lebanese-Syrian borders has tripled in size due to the number of refugees escaping the nearby conflict. In order to support both the …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) rehabilitated the public school of Kherbet Daoud , a town in the northern Lebanese region of Akkar . The school brings together Lebanese and Syrian …
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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.
