"I was fascinated that after so many years, somebody still wanted to know my story." It has been 17 years since Lola's husband went missing. When she was pregnant with their third baby, Lola's …
Encouraging young people to think and write about humanitarian concerns, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Singapore Red Cross (SRC) organized a short essay competition as part …
29-08-2018 Tripoli (ICRC) – Tensions that started earlier this week have turned into armed confrontations in parts of Tripoli, in western Libya. An unknown number of people have reportedly been …
Families of missing people have specific needs. They need psychosocial support as well as help with livelihood, health, education, legal and administrative matters. In 2015, the ICRC started a …
In situations of armed conflict, people often lose contact with their families. They get separated by hostilities, changing frontlines or while fleeing their homes. Sometimes years or even decades …
The ICRC's Physical Rehabilitation Programme (PRP) recently achieved two major milestones on the road to serving the people of Cambodia. Not only did the programme complete 26 years of its presence …
Ranjinithevi For a long time, Ranjinithevi’s daughter Pavithra thought her maternal grandfather was her father. In the meantime, Ranjinithevi spent large sums of money on fortune tellers to find out …
The ICRC, NRCS and NEFAD focus on Right to Know for this year's International Day of the Disappeared Kathmandu (ICRC/NRCS) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Nepal Red Cross …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in partnership with Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS), is supporting the Oromia Pastoral Areas Development Commission to help communities …
When violence peaked last year, it was common to see families waiting at Alal Than Kyaw beach in Maungdaw, eager to cross over to Bangladesh. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Hla Yamin Eain In the first few …
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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.
