Aya Hajajreh & Her Mother – COVID-19 Nurse Aya Hajajreh, 28, is a nurse in the COVID-19 ward in Al-Maqassed Hospital in Jerusalem. During the peak of the pandemic, Aya, six-months pregnant, insisted …
… of the conflict. Economic opportunities and jobs top young Syrians' list of what they need … unusual, high risk, socially degrading jobs 3% 70% 49% 43% Married children (under … have accepted high-risk or socially degrading jobs. • Cash assistance was the number one …
Throughout 2020, the social and economic crisis in Venezuela continued to take its toll on the most vulnerable part of the population, who had to not only endure a context riddled with violence and a …
… Ashfaq Yusufzai, “Specialist Doctors Quit Jobs to Join LRH”, Dawn News (9 June 2017) KP … compulsory to apply for in-house hospital jobs. Noti cations are legally binding. v. The …
Annual report 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges in many areas, such as health management inside the country's prisons and the humanitarian consequences of migration. Likewise, it …
Digital Technologies and Humanitarian Action in Armed Conflict On 18 March 2021, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convened a webinar discussion with experts about "Digital …
Roughly 510 km from Kabul, Badakhshan's provincial capital Faizabad sits high at an altitude of 1,200 m above sea level. The mountainous province of Badakhshan is home to around 1.5 million people …
Brazil was headed for the peak in its first wave of cases and deaths from COVID-19 in 2020 when the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) gave photographers and journalists in three …
… back to top There were simply no more jobs – none at all. Everything just stopped. …
Just like every morning for the past nine years, Claudia Ortega arrives at the primary health care centre in Boca de Grita to provide medical care at the only health care facility available to 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.
