La Hkum Lu Aung remembers a time when her life was peaceful and pleasant. Her family had enjoyed normal days, working hard to raise farm animals and cultivate rice and other crops in Nam Lin Pa …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the efforts of the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO), and of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), to negotiate …
28-08-2023 An update on ICRC’s work in the country, from Afghanistan Head of Delegation Eloi Fillion: Just more than half of all Afghans need humanitarian assistance. What that really means: One in …
In Afghanistan, more than half (55%) of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance, with economic sanctions deepening an already dire situation. The International Committee of the Red Cross …
23-08-2023 Wad Madani (ICRC) – This week, over 9,000 displaced people in Jokhii village, west of Al Fashir, the capital of North Darfur State, received essential household items from the …
Opinion SOPHIE ORR The article was originally published in the Miami Herald . This July marks two years since Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse was shot dead inside his home. With the country mired in …
Over a decade on, millions of people across Syria continue to bear the brunt of a conflict compounded by several crises. Not only lives have been lost, families shattered, and homes destroyed, but …
Statement Madame President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) . When the ATT was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2013, the …
In 2017, just a few weeks after an armed conflict broke out in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, Princess Joy Maulana – nicknamed PJae – looked at the chaotic scene before her. A registered nurse working …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) remains the only humanitarian organization operating across the Lachin corridor to respond to growing humanitarian needs. The latest deliveries 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.
