Facts and figures The armed conflict in north-east Nigeria has had devastating humanitarian consequences for millions of people across the Lake Chad region. More than two million people have been …
Geneva (ICRC) – The 12th meeting of the coordination mechanism seeking to account for people who went missing in connection with the conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 and their aftermath took …
Yacoob Idriss'* story is like that of many other children living in the Lake Chad region. One morning, armed men attacked his village, Doron Baga, in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno. They …
Five years ago, fighting on the border of Sudan and South Sudan split a community in two. Hundreds of families were separated when they fled the violence and lost contact with each other completely. …
This year marks 20 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed. While the deal brought an end to the period in Northern Ireland known as 'the Troubles', ongoing violence still affects …
06-02-2018 Sana'a/Geneva (ICRC): Thousands of Yemenis with kidney failure are at risk of dying unless the country's remaining dialysis centres receive more supplies and its medical staff are paid, …
Mohamed Sheikh-Ali coordinates ICRC's economic security response in Nigeria, one of the largest economic security programmes in Africa. Since early 2017, the delegation in Nigeria has been gradually …
The ICRC has a long history of working in the UK dating back to the Second World War. Find out what we're doing in the UK today. Why does the ICRC have an office in London? The UK has a strong voice …
Facts and figures In 2017, the ICRC continued to help the people of Somalia affected by over 35 years of armed conflict and harsh climatic conditions like droughts and floods. At the onset of the …
In 2017, the ICRC and the Libyan Red Crescent continued to help those most in need in Libya. We distributed aid in the form of food and essential household items such as mattresses, blankets, kitchen …
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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.
