Volunteers from the South African Red Cross Society (SARCS) introduce themselves to migrants at a shelter in Musina, South Africa, the nearest town to South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe. Since 2016, …
Naseem Akhtar, Nurse, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College emergency ward "When you witness an assassination attempt in the middle of the emergency ward, it’s natural that you would fear for your life …
Taking IHL as a starting point, this paper will identify commonalities between IHL and the CRPD and emphasize certain specific contributions of IHL to the protection of persons with disabilities in …
"I am too nervous to watch this game!" says Alberto Cairo, who manages the ICRC's physical rehabilitation programme in Afghanistan and also happens to be senior adviser to the Afghan national …
ICRC legal adviser Netta Goussac talks about new technologies and IHL, including the applicability of IHL to drone strikes, the importance of human control over and the accountability gap with …
The ICRC in Tajikistan and the Committee for Religious Affairs jointly organized a two-day workshop on the role of religious leaders in emergencies on from 11 to 12 October 2017. Due to its …
Abdullahi Abdrahman waits for the food distribution exercise to begin. The 70-year-old walked over 200km in the past months in search of food, water and pasture for his family and remaining frail …
The ICRC, working closely with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), has treated 30,000 patients in the past three months in Cox's Bazar. Every day, four doctors, four paramedics and BDRCS …
The conflict in Syria continues to fuel one of the largest and most complex humanitarian crises in the world today. According to Pawel Krzysiek, ICRC Head of Communications in Syria, the conflict is …
11-12-2017 Geneva – The number of families being separated by conflict, violence and natural disaster is at a five year high according to data from the International Committee of the Red Cross …
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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.
