In an informal tête-à-tête, Cynthia Novee Jane Dumanig, who is a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) field officer in the Philippines, talks about her ICRC journey, which began at the …
When Milena Osorio joined the ICRC in early 2008, the organization was running eight programmes that focused on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) worldwide. Almost 13 years later, the …
I have completed my visit to Somalia today with a heavy heart. Thirty years ago, when I first came to work in this country, I could not possibly imagine that the armed conflict, which caused so much …
Biometrics have become a much talked-about subject in the context of humanitarian operations. Biometric data promise to help addressing ongoing humanitarian issues such as lack of identification and …
How can we make biometrics work for humanitarian organizations? What programmes stand to benefit the most from their introduction? And what mitigation measures can we put in place to prevent misuse? …
What are biometric data? What uses are there for this type of information? And what risks do we need to remain aware of? To open the seventh DigitHarium month, our Tokyo delegation has invited …
Speech by Dr Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at the high-level segment of the 2nd Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) undertook a comprehensive Family Needs Assessment (FNA) among the families of missing Zimbabwean migrants as part of the Missing and Deceased …
Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has identified the remains of six Argentine soldiers buried on the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Their families were informed today, …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), has been carrying out an intensive infection prevention and control (IPC) …
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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.
