“The hardest part about working as a forensic doctor is experiencing grief alongside the families. And it’s a different grief because the death was violent, not natural,” says Yesenia Delgado, a …
… workers are safe and able to carry out their jobs is crucial for their protection and …
… their basic infrastructure; to finding jobs and economic opportunities; to searching …
When Alberto Cairo gave a TED Talk on the ICRC's physical rehabilitation services in Afghanistan, he hoped it would "get a few clicks" and that maybe it would prompt more discussions about disability …
… wait in queues from dawn to sunset for jobs. This scarcity of employment …
Fartun Nur Abdulle, 25, Dusamareb, Galgaduud region. Experience as a midwife: Three years Fartun holds a dummy baby during an obstetrics training held in Nairobi for SRCS midwives. “My mother …
Tripoli, Lebanon's second largest city, has been the scene of recurrent outbursts of armed violence between the marginalized communities of the Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen neighbourhoods. Since …
In the first eleven months of 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recorded a 50 per cent increase in children treated for cerebral palsy (CP) in Kabul, as compared to the …
… with a devastating domino effect on people’s jobs and income. Almost 90 per cent of …
“We didn’t expect this coming. I wake up every morning, having no idea how we will survive the day.” Four years ago, Zainab’s home burned down amidst fighting in western Libya. She and her family …
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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.
