For over two decades, violent clashes and their aftermath in Plateau State have displaced thousands and led to the loss of hundreds of lives. "We lost our homes, means of livelihood, everything! We …
Armed conflicts are increasingly taking place in urban and other populated areas, often with weapons designed to deliver large explosive force from afar and over large areas. When used in populated …
In northeast Nigeria, Hadiza Hussaini was given no choice but to leave her home when fighting reached her village of Wumbi. "It was at night during the first week of the 2016 Ramadan fast. We started …
19-06-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Two months into the conflict, hostilities in densely populated urban areas have taken a disastrous toll on civilian infrastructure, especially in locations in and around …
“I’m looking forward to a time when my community will be revived like the legendary wounded deer that was miraculously healed by the mineral-rich spring water of our town,” says Nushik Vardumyan, a …
The newly installed water tanks on the roof deck of the jail. A newly installed water tank, with the surrounding foliage in the background. These pipes connect the water meter and the cistern tanks. …
The international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine affects millions of people and the recent increase in military operations - as well as the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam - are …
14-06-2023 Mueda, 14 June 2023 – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently assisted returnees to Mocímboa da Praia, Cabo Delgado, with essential household items. Kits composed of …
It has been a long time since Mahfouza, a person with disability and a mother of two living in Faizabad, Afghanistan, saw a banknote. So long that now she can’t even remember the difference between …
14-06-2023 Brussels (ICRC) - Communities in Syria have lived through more than 12 years of a deadly armed conflict and a devastating earthquake that caused further humanitarian suffering earlier this …
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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.
