Access to physical rehabilitation services is essential for ensuring that people with physical disabilities can participate fully in society. Regaining mobility is an important step towards having …
Ingy Sedky The Syrian woman poured a glass of muddy water and handed it to me. "Drink it!" my host said. It was a hot summer day in August in a shelter in the middle of the desert. I eyed the dark …
MSSC, Makati Open-ended Finance and administration The responsibilities of the CTR Cluster Lead are to ensure the sector’s accounting activities and information are correctly organized and detailed …
In an emergency, giving people money is often the best way to help them. So long as people have access to markets that are functioning, cash enables them to make their own decisions about what they …
… also causes loss of livelihoods. For safety, jobs are left behind. Some of those who left …
… require further support, as they do not have jobs or any other source of income to make a … in the city of Pemba, he would do small jobs such as transporting sand for sale. He …
… treating those most in need. Some quit their jobs, out of fear or exhaustion. 2021 was the … wounded. Health-care workers often quit their jobs and leave badly affected areas as soon as …
… over 200 members have already lost their jobs due to the pandemic. However, keke …
… by this project, since al-Omari gave them jobs there. “We sell hot drinks and corn on …
The trauma of displacement, the debilitating pain of polio and the scars of discrimination are not visible when Noor Islam Amirzai, part of Afghanistan’s national cricket team for people with …
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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.
