Speaking from Donetsk, the head of the ICRC's sub-delegation, Joan Audierne, tells how escalating fighting in and around the city in the last two weeks has seen the situation for civilians …
Alicia and Lorena are looking for answers. Some of their family went missing in Chile between 1973 and 1990 under the military regime. They are just two of the many people still struggling to find …
The conflict has forced many Palestinian refugees from Syria to flee the harsh reality of war. Dealing with difficult living conditions, the ICRC helped the refugees prepare for the winter in early …
The director-general of the ICRC, Mr. Yves Daccord, accompanied by Ms. Mary Werntz, Head of the ICRC's Regional Delegation based in New Delhi, paid an official visit to the Indian Red Cross Society …
Fighting has intensified recently in and around Donetsk, resulting in civilian casualties and preventing the ICRC team in Donetsk from carrying out its humanitarian work. "We once again call on all …
Every year, millions of families become separated by war, disaster or migration. The Family Links website is one of the tools that the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement created in order to …
Food, water, household items and materials The ICRC: delivered more than 2,000 tonnes of aid to areas not controlled by the Ukrainian government in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, including food and …
In conversation with Natasha Stott Despoja, Australia's ambassador for women and girls. Ms Stott Despoja discusses the issue of sexual violence in conflict and how Australia is working to better …
Intensifying violence in north-east Nigeria has led to a deterioration in the humanitarian situation. Thousands of people have fled to other parts of Nigeria and into neighbouring countries. Others …
Ibrahim is one of many Lebanese forced to flee the conflict in Syria and return to Lebanon. Finding a job is tough, and he struggles to make ends meet. The ICRC is helping him, and others like him, …
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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.
