"Losing everything also gave me a new perspective on what's important in life. It got me thinking more about family, less about material things" "I used to be a daily worker. I would do everything …
In the first quarter of 2018, our teams brought together more than 100 health care professionals for an emergency room trauma course aimed at increasing the chances of survival for patients at risk …
Since 2004, the ICRC Kuala Lumpur has partnered with local university to organise International Humanitarian Law moot court competition where students must argue prosecution and defence of a …
Guidimakha is a region in southern Mauritania, bordered by Senegal and Mali. Like elsewhere on the continent, young people leave Guidimakha for other African countries or Europe. Sometimes their …
The education system in Myanmar is continuously growing to meet the rising demand. And it's no different in the central prisons at Insein, Mandalay and Tharyawaddy, where juveniles have free access …
From 2007 to 2017, there were 786.071* cases of missing people in Brazil and 82.684 reports only in 2017. *Data from the Yearbook published by the Brazilian Public Safety Forum (FBSP) in 2017 and …
Since 2001, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission have collaborated on implementation of International Humanitarian Law …
Fourth Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty. Statement by Dr Helen Durham, the ICRC director of International Law and Policy Syria, Yemen, Iraq, South Sudan, Somalia and Ukraine are …
Gerardo M. Águila, Operational Communication Officer "We have survived all kinds of things - hurricanes, emergencies and disasters - but we had never experienced anything like this. We weren't …
20-08-2018 Tokyo/Geneva – Speaking today at a meeting of parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in Tokyo, Japan, Dr Helen Durham, Head of Law and Policy for the International Committee of the Red …
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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.
