Similar to prisons around the world, scabies is a recurrent health problem in places of detention in Bangladesh. One major challenge is that there is no national protocol for scabies management in …
According to the Kenyan authorities, over 4.35 million people living mostly in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) face severe food insecurity. Below-average rainfall has protracted across four …
Irma* had not heard from her son, Javier*, for more than a year and assumed the worst. Her suspicions seemed about to be confirmed when, one afternoon in March 2022, two people wearing the Red Cross …
16-11-2022 Sana’a (ICRC) – With three out of four Yemenis relying on agriculture and livestock for their survival, the climate crisis is pushing communities already reeling from almost eight years of …
The people of Woch Khwara in eastern Khost Province of Afghanistan, comprising of those displaced from different provinces of the country and returnees from neighbouring countries, are in dire …
14-11-2022 Milestone political declaration to open for signature on 18 November NEW YORK /GENEVA , 14 November 2022 – The heads of three UN entities and the President of the International Committee …
The people of Woch Khwara in eastern Khost Province of Afghanistan, comprising of those displaced from different provinces of the country and returnees from neighbouring countries, are in dire …
Mali, like other countries in the Sahel region, is in the grip of an armed conflict whose impact has been aggravated by climate change. While communities on the ground have shown extraordinary …
New technologies have transformed humanitarian action and can facilitate humanitarian work. But the digital transformation also generates novel risks – risks that need to be addressed in …
04-11-2022 Geneva (MSF/ICRC) – Climate change is not a distant threat. It is already dramatically affecting vulnerable people across the globe. In particular, the changing climate is having …
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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.
