Before the war, Abu Ammar transported fruits and vegetables in his vehicle. The bustling Eastern Ghouta was the main agricultural supplier to the markets in Damascus. Years of fighting choked the …
This evaluation, completed in 2018, focussed on how the ICRC engages with people affected by conflict and other forms of violence, and how it responds to their diverse needs. The focus was on the …
As one of the key areas of its work, the ICRC continues to promote respect for international humanitarian law and its implementation with multiple stakeholders, including military and police forces. …
14-08-2018 Kabul/Geneva (ICRC) – Since intense fighting broke out four days ago in Ghazni, Central Afghanistan, the International Committee of the Red Cross has provided dressing packages and oral …
For the second time in a matter of months, Ebola once again threatens lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This time the deadly Ebola has struck North Kivu, an area rife with armed conflict …
From January to June 2018, the ICRC worked closely with the Mali Red Cross to distribute food and basic household necessities in northern and central Mali. More than 20,000 refugees, displaced …
Escalation of the conflict in April 2016 forced residents of the heavily affected Talish village in Nagorno-Karabakh to flee to a safer place. For some, Alashan, an area of former Soviet pioneer camp …
Sidi Diallo, known as Djèfani, is married, father to eight children, and physically disabled. To put money on the table, he makes rattan furniture. But outside work, Djèfani has another passion in …
Born to a Nigerian father and a Malian mother, Adama Saliou, known as Malam, was a teacher of the Qur'an in the town of Ménaka in Mali. But when fighting broke out there in 2012, he was separated …
2018: Displaced by war Two million people remain displaced in Iraq today. This mother and her children still live in a camp and dream of returning to their home. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Ibrahim Sherkhan …
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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.
