In 2016, the ICRC worked with Guinea's prison authorities on nutrition, medical care and other matters. We continued to focus our efforts on detainee health and nutrition and basic infrastructure …
In the Luhansk region, foresters take great pride in regenerating forests, helping protect the environment and provide firewood for the local population. Through a programme that also creates jobs …
Armed conflict in North East Nigeria has displaced more than 2 million people and had damaging consequences for over 1.5 million people hosting them. The situation, in humanitarian terms, has been …
In the Central African Republic , the ICRC has a delegation in Bangui, sub-delegations in Kaga Bandoro, Bambari, Ndélé and Bangui (covering the west of the country), and an office in Birao. In 2016, …
In Ukraine, the ICRC is helping people affected by the conflict in collaboration with the Ukrainian Red Cross. Here are our main activities in 2016 : 13,800 metric tonnes of humanitarian aid were …
Hundreds of thousands of people have fled Syria as a result of the ongoing armed conflict, seeking refuge in Jordan, with the majority arriving in 2012 and 2013. Today, more than 655,000 Syrians have …
18-02-2017 Kabul / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling for the safe and unconditional release of two staff members abducted when their convoy was ambushed …
Our website " How does law protect in war ?" has an improved look and feel, with over 300 real life case studies to explore. > Watch this video to see exactly what's changed and how you can make the …
When Punchibanda watched his son leave to join the army in 1995, he could not have imagined the heartache he would have to endure five years later. In 2000, he and his wife were informed that their …
Every two to three months, we visit people detained in relation to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, in prisons run by Ukrainian authorities. In this short video, our delegate Chyngyz Rayimbekov, …
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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.
