Our social inclusion project is offering people with disabilities equal opportunities to showcase their knowledge and skills, ability to learn, work and be gainfully employed in Ethiopia. Through …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided emergency assistance to over 1,500 displaced families who are currently living in Myaning Gyi Ngu, Ohn Taw, Khamamaung town and their …
This is a summary of the final report of the evaluation of the Support Relationships in Armed Conflicts Initiative (SRI), a five-year strategy (2019-2023) aimed at broadening the ICRC's engagement …
An eleven-year partnership with the Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) Hospital and the ICRC came to a successful and sustainable closure by end 2022. The ICRC's …
The Florence Nightingale Medal is awarded to nurses who display exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster or to those who display exemplary service in the …
… as well as activities that help people find jobs, learn new languages and support …
In the heart of Myanmar's Kayin State, the Hpa-An Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Centre (HORC) has been serving the community since it was set up in 2003. Run by the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) with …
… the only option. They leave behind their jobs and studies, belongings, security, hopes …
This is the executive summary of the evaluation of the ICRC's crisis management and response to the COVID-19 pandemic . It includes a summary of the management response to recommendations. The …
This is a summary of the final report of the evaluation of the qualitative and quantitative results of the Safer Access to Essential Public Services Programme. The program was developed by the ICRC …
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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.
