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Working in the humanitarian sector is both rewarding and challenging. If this is the career path that you see yourself on, keep reading. This flyer will help you understand how the International …
Some were smiling, others looked nervous. Nearly three dozen children and another 12 adults were waiting to board the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) airplanes that would soon deliver …
"This is not a job to make money. It's just a way to help" Story by Nadera Zohra Bouazza Famata Hassan has a tragic relationship with childbirth. Her daughter was pregnant when she was forced to flee …
While fighting across Afghanistan has decreased significantly in the last year, Afghan families’ struggle to survive has not. The combined effects of a paralyzed banking system, lack of cash and job …
Neither Luis, Jorge, or Lisseth were born in the city of Santa Elena de Uairén, in the state of Bolívar, but due to different life circumstances, they were all in Santa Elena when the COVID-19 …
This young couple in northern Myanmar lost their home and land when fighting broke out in their village. For over a year they have had to stay with relatives, with no money and no job. They are among …
Ibrahim is one of many Lebanese forced to flee the conflict in Syria and return to Lebanon. Finding a job is tough, and he struggles to make ends meet. The ICRC is helping him, and others like him, …
15 years after the international convention banning landmines came into force, these weapons continue to exact a terrible human toll. In Myanmar alone, there were more than 3,000 landmine casualties …
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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.
