Lebanon: Looking Back at 2016
This past year was not easy year for many. There were ups and downs but, with your support, we still managed to make a …
This past year was not easy year for many. There were ups and downs but, with your support, we still managed to make a …
If breaking the rules of the game is absurd what about breaking the rules of war? …
Security issues continue to affect farming activities of people in Tavush region living in communities along the international border with Azerbaijan. As an alternative to field cultivation, the ICRC …
Cairo (ICRC)– The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in cooperation with the League of Arab States (LAS), organized a two-day training program on the International Humanitarian Law …
When Ahmad was only five years old, a mortar landed on his house in Idlib, Syria while he was playing in the garden and he immediately lost both his legs. …
Mohammad and his family were forced to escape the conflict in Syria and seek refuge in Lebanon. With no access to health care, Mohammad was almost permanently paralysed after being seriously injured. …
22-12-2016 Damascus/Geneva: The operation to evacuate civilians and fighters from East Aleppo was finalized this evening, after a week marked by stops and starts and increasingly bad weather. Some …
After the distribution of vegetable seeds, food, and hygiene kits in October 2016, the ICRC team returned to the same villages to bring farm tools. The ICRC convoy went through rough terrains to …
Since 2009, the ICRC has been supporting residents of conflict-affected villages along the administrative boundary line in Georgia's Shida Kartli region, helping families rebuild livelihoods and …
Decades after the conflict in Viet Nam, explosive remnants of war continue to contaminate the land threatening people's lives and impeding development. More than 350,000 people are still listed as …
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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.