Over the past 20 years, the ICRC's Water and Habitat engineers have worked closely with Cambodia's prison service to decrease detainees' stress levels, provide better sanitation facilities and …
Thousands of refugees have fled to Jordan to escape the Syrian conflict. Many have endured heartbreaking ordeals in Syria—only to face more struggles as refugees in Jordan. Resettlement can be a …
The red cross, red crescent and red crystal emblems provide protection for military medical services and relief workers in armed conflicts. Moreover, the emblems are also used by National Societies …
28-12-2015 Joint Press Release. The United Nations in Syria, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the International Committee of the Red Cross on the evacuation of injured people and relatives in …
At the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, there was broad agreement about the need to continue working together to protect health-care workers and facilities. Driven by …
Four months after the floods that hit Myanmar, vulnerable communities are still struggling to recover. The Myanmar Red Cross and the ICRC are helping 25,000 people near Mrauk U in central Rakhine, …
To heat the Al Rahma clinic this winter, in the mountainous area of Chebaa in the southeast of Lebanon, the ICRC delivered 10 tons of olive husk. The olive husks fuel a special biomass boiler that …
In preparation for the coming winter, which is expected to be particularly harsh, the ICRC recently delivered 10 tons of olive husk fuel to heat the Al Rahma health clinic in the mountainous area of …
This is the ICRC's third sustainable development annual report. It provides an update on progress made in 2014 on the organization's Framework for Sustainable Development, which was adopted in 2011. …
ICRC law and policy director Helen Durham explains how States and regional bodies committed themselves to dealing with this "hidden" issue at the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and …
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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.
