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 …
Gerard managed a full smile and a wave to the well-wishers and neighbours who gathered to bid him farewell. The other children, Dina, Diodone, Dunia and Mamie quickly climbed into the car, a bit …
07-08-2018 Kinshasa/Geneva (ICRC/IFRC) – A team of Red Cross experts has arrived in the town of Beni, close to the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the …
The ICRC and Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) begun delivering emergency assistance to people displaced by ethnic violence in Ethiopia last week. The displacement occurred along the borders of …
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and most of the international community, want to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again and are eliminated entirely. Why is it so …
Violence escalated in the border area of Gaza at the end of March, resulting in dozens of deaths and thousands of wounded, many by live ammunition. Hospitals, overwhelmed by a series of influxes of …
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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.
