Since December 2013, when the conflict began, the South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC), the ICRC, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and other Movement partners have been …
3 December is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In the countries where we are working, people with disabilities are often among those who suffer the greatest hardship. This is …
"We must learn from each other" says Dr Nehal Hefny, Programs and Projects Coordinator at the Egyptian Red Crescent Society. The latest newsletter of the Health Care in Danger project features a …
On this Wednesday 3 December 2014, coinciding with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has crossed a symbolic threshold: 5,000 …
Rules of War (in a nutshell) This year marks the 150th anniversary of the original Geneva Convention, the first set of rules to protect the sick and the wounded, as well as health-care personnel and …
Preparatory Discussion in view of the Fourth Meeting of States on Strengthening Compliance with IHL 1 and 2 December 2014 BACKGROUND DOCUMENT GENEVA, OCTOBER 2014 Contents 1. Introduction …
The general hospital in Timbuktu, where Abdoul Aziz Ould Mohamed was working in 2012, was the only medical facility in the region not to be attacked during the conflict in northern Mali. In this …
Editorial - Health Care in Danger Newsletter, December 2014 And the lessons are to be found everywhere, not only in places ravaged by conflict, like Gaza and Syria. The number and the seriousness of …
On 25 January 2014, Madagascar celebrated the inauguration of its new president at the Mahamasina municipal stadium in Antananarivo. At 7 p.m. on that day, Elisabeth left her small shop in the …
The ICRC and the National Committee for Demining and Rehabilitation (NCDR) have been working together on various mine action activities for some years. The "Mine Risk Education'' programme, run by …
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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.
