08-02-2017 Geneva / Kabul (ICRC) – Six staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been shot and killed in Afghanistan. Two staff members are unaccounted for. The team, …
Cairo (ICRC), 7 February 2017 – Catherine Gendre, Head of Cairo Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Moamena Kamel, Secretary General of the Egyptian Red Crescent …
07-02-2017 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross carried out its first distribution of relief items in Enga Province last week, providing essential tools to hundreds of …
The purpose of this report is to provide background information on the technical characteristics of indirect-fire weapon systems, examine how and when they are employed, address and explain issues …
This document lists all course offers in international humanitarian law, organized by the ICRC in French and English worldwide. INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW TRAINING ACTIVITIES TRAINING FOR …
This page provides information about the recruitment, deployment and general working conditions of mobile field staff on a Geneva-based contract. We will discuss the specific terms and conditions at …
The ICRC continues to help the Liberian authorities respond to humanitarian needs while also strengthening the capacities of institutions in international humanitarian law and international rules and …
In the context of the ICRC's regional response to the Syrian conflict, the ICRC in Jordan continued to respond to the needs of thousands of Syrian refugees and communities hosting them, while …
Biogas production – in other words, turning human organic waste into fuel – began in Tsiafahy high-security prison in June 2016. This system was the first of its kind in Madagascar's prisons. It not …
Nestory knew he had to leave. Burundi was becoming too volatile. Many of his neighbors had already fled to refugee camps in Tanzania. ''I ran into the night without saying goodbye to my wife and …
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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.
