Winter is setting in and the days are getting colder in Krasnyi Lyman, eastern Ukraine. This small town is hosting thousands of people who have fled the fighting. Since 27 November, the ICRC and the …
Muhammad Al Humsi is one of the 100,000 Syrian refugees in Zaatari camp in Jordan. He and his family were forced to flee from their home nearly two years ago. Since then, he has been trying to get on …
Private military and security companies: Montreux Document participants establish the Montreux Document Forum to continue working on implementation The Montreux Document reaffirms the existing …
Every day, hundreds of people travel thousands of kilometres across land or sea in search of a brighter future. 18 December is International Migrants Day. Pierre Gentile, head of the ICRC's …
Tabasco, Tenosique, Mexico, 9 February 2012. Migrants from Central America wait for a train to leave. Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Central America risk their lives every year in search of a …
17-12-2014 Around the world, thousands of migrants are behind bars. Having already suffered many hardships on perilous journeys, migrants should not be subjected to administrative detention except as …
Since Typhoon Hagupit struck the Philippines just over a week ago, the Philippine Red Cross has had three rapid response teams on the ground to assess the impact on the worst affected areas, …
Monrovia Central Prison, Liberia. Everyone who enters Monrovia Central Prison has to submit to the mandatory temperature check and wash their hands with chlorinated water. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / T. …
18-12-2014 In Yemen, where the Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated on 13 December, festivities go silently, perhaps even unnoticed. However, all over the country, there is reason to …
Thierry, a prosthetic/orthotic technician from the Akanin’ny Marary centre in Ambositra, supported by the ICRC’s Special Fund for the Disabled (SFD), prepares a prosthesis for a patient. The …
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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.
