How a ‘cool’ new trade helped transform the life of a 20-year-old Sam* first learnt how to repair an air conditioner while he was in a correctional centre in Phnom Penh City. The 20-year-old was part …
Preventing sexual violence and looking after those who have suffered from it are the two main ways that the ICRC acts in this sensitive area. Although we are making headway, the task is still …
Internal displacement is increasingly urban. Significant efforts have been made to develop an adequate humanitarian response to displacement in urban settings in the last few years, but major …
A three-day regional seminar on health care in detention organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) began in Amman yesterday, with the participation of 44 prison directors and …
Newsletter May-August 2018 In the second quarter of 2018, the ICRC's activities in Venezuela and the CARICOM States focused on training health care professionals in treating emergency room trauma …
Is this training for you? Are you working with an international or local organization dealing with humanitarian issues on a daily basis? Are you working in a situation of armed conflict and/or …
(New York) – Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), lead a delegation to the UN General Assembly High Level week, calling on world leaders to show political …
25-09-2018 Yemen side-event: Addressing malnutrition in Yemen Yemen Side-Event: Addressing Malnutrition in Yemen New York – At the United Nations General Assembly High-Level meeting on "Addressing …
Yemen side-event: Addressing malnutrition in Yemen Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, ICRC President, at UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on "Addressing Malnutrition in Yemen". When bombs drop …
If you see someone drowning, would you not help them? The answer might seem obvious. When it comes to migrants and refugees, for some it seems less so. This discussion focused on the legal …
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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.
