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As the world's largest humanitarian organisation, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement spans many different peoples, cultures and outlooks. However, all 189 member countries follow …
As the world's largest humanitarian organisation, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement spans many different peoples, cultures and outlooks. However, all 189 member countries follow …
by Jacques de Maio, head of the ICRC's delegation in Israel and the occupied territories This is our stance – and it's non-negotiable. Even if, all too often, and sometimes precisely because of it, …
This image shows Reaper a Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS), part of 39 Squadron Royal Air Force. The Reaper has completed 20,000 operational flight hours in theatre, and is operated from Kandahar …
Thousands of families desperately hope that one day they will be able to return to their homes. But with the conflict in Syria now entering its fifth year, that hope is fading. In this interview, …
ICRC-hosted event calls for greater awareness and inclusion of people with disabilities during humanitarian crises. More needs to be done to ensure that people with disabilities – both mental and …
An update of our activities in central Mindanao, Philippines. Content: The uncertainty of displacement Clean water for vulnerable communities in Pikit Health: Life-saving support without distinction …
Living conditions in Haitian detention centres remain alarming despite efforts to improve them, and important needs have not yet been met. To improve this situation, the ICRC is helping the Haitian …
Scarcity of water is commonplace in northern Ethiopia. However, a better access to clean and safe water will no longer be a problem for 6000 residents of district Miglabferes, in western Tigray. The …
Fighting is entering a second month in Yemen and Marco Baldan, the ICRC's chief war surgeon, talks about how health care has become one of the first victims of the …
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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.