On 26 March, the ICRC, in partnership with the Graduate Institute, launched the new Global Research and Debate Cycle on Migration and Displacement. ICRC President Peter Maurer and forced migration …
On 26 March, the ICRC, in partnership with the Graduate Institute, launched the new Global Research and Debate Cycle on Migration and Displacement. ICRC President Peter Maurer and forced migration …
The ICRC and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) launched a joint discussion paper that provides recommendations for humanitarian organisations and donors in today's digital era. This 3 minute …
23-03-2018 Bukavu (ICRC) – Twenty seven people who had been held by an armed group since 3 March 2018 were handed over today to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in …
Manila (ICRC) –Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern in the Philippines, which remains among the most affected countries in the world. The country’s overcrowded places of detention are …
Photo: WFP/Kiyori Ueno On 22 March, the ICRC and the Cash Learning Partnership will host a panel discussion at the Humanitarium to mark the publication of the 2018 State of the World's Cash Report . …
With great enthusiasm, 150 detainees at the Penitentiary Establishment for Women of Lampa, in Puno, in the Peruvian Altiplano, received travelling books from the Suitcase Libraries Project promoted …
In the city of Tingo María, Huánuco, the public prosecutor’s office returned the bodies of 26 people reported missing. This was the first return of a large number of victims to take place in the city …
The ICRC Head of delegation to the African Union, Mr Jean Jacques Tshamala, accompanied by the Deputy Head of Delegation Ms Diane Misenga Kabeya, paid a courtesy call to the AU Commissioner for …
22-03-2018 Abuja (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with and in support to the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), is training 20 NPS health personnel today …
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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.
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
