In 1926, when Lady Reading started collecting funds to establish a hospital in Peshawar, no one could have anticipated that the facility would one day provide medical care to 28 million people. The …
Meet Mesheck Kyandu. He fled his home in Pweto, Democratic Republic of Congo because of armed violence. During that time, he got separated from the rest of his family. They are still in the …
On 18 July, the ICRC is marking Nelson Mandela International Day with the launch of a new edition of 'A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management' by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, …
A two-day training brought together 55 senior federal police officers on how international human rights standards and humanitarian principles can be applied to policing. In his opening remarks, …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC), the Lebanese University (LU) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), are holding a two-week …
Geneva, 16 July 2018 – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) met Monday to announce a collaboration …
“Armed violence affected access to health care in our community. The health centre was closed after being looted during violence and we were forced to rely on traditional healers,” says Frederico …
Nearly 500 families that found themselves displaced by the recent outbreak of fighting in Lanao del Sur province, in Mindanao, and remain displaced to date, received food and other essential supplies …
12-07-2018 Geneva/Addis Ababa (ICRC): Inter-communal clashes in southern Ethiopia are fueling a rapidly swelling humanitarian crisis in which more than 800,000 people are forcibly displaced from …
Webinar In situations of conflict, nutrition often suffers and can easily become a complicated issue to address. This webinar aims to share information on the different realities, challenges, and …
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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.
