I'm eight years old. Ten months ago, my parents disappeared. Now my brothers and I are going back to our home town, Lubumbashi, to live with our uncle, our dad's big brother. Due to the conflict in …
Political uncertainty in Haiti in 2015 had an impact on social and economic conditions in the country. The ICRC's activities in Haiti in 2015: Some 10,000 detainees obtained better access to health …
For the residents of Adi Ashker – a small village in Eritrea of 1,000 people - livestock means everything. The community's ability to survive largely depends on the well-being of their sheep, goats …
In 2015, a number of countries in the Horn of Africa witnessed a wave of crises. The ongoing unrest in South Sudan brought the number of people who had fled their homes since the conflict started to …
There have to be limits if we are to prevent wars from descending into barbarity. These rules are set out in international humanitarian law. Yes, even wars have limits. We've just released an …
29-03-2016 Manila (ICRC) – The largest mass screening for tuberculosis (TB) in the country is being held for about 5,700 inmates in New Bilibid Prison (NBP), Muntinlupa City, as part of efforts to …
Residents from the municipality of Catubig in Northern Samar listen as an ICRC field staff explains the relief distribution process and how beneficiary communities were selected. CC BY-NC-ND/ICRC/S. …
25-03-2016 Belgrade/Pristina (ICRC) – The working group on persons unaccounted for in connection with events in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 held its 42nd session in Belgrade today. Officials from …
24-03-2016 Baghdad/Geneva (ICRC) - International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff distributed aid today to more than 12,000 displaced people surviving in desperate conditions in west Ramadi, …
The ICRC opened its delegation in Eritrea in 1998 and worked throughout the 1998-2000 armed conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia and beyond, protecting and assisting people affected by the conflict. …
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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.
