A new publication presents measures to minimize the impact of military operations on the delivery of health care. Data gathered by the ICRC since 2012 in 23 operational contexts, and published in an …
ICRC medical adviser Dr Robin Coupland visited Australia recently to attend the World Medical Association's Global Health Summit. During his visit, we talked to him about his long career as an ICRC …
04-12-2014 In November, the ICRC provided clean water, food, health care and other emergency relief for more civilians than ever before, with joint ICRC-Syrian Arab Red Crescent teams repeatedly …
04-12-2014 Kuala Lumpur (ICRC) – Thirty prison managers and medical personnel have just completed a three-day seminar on health care in places of detention organized by the ICRC in close cooperation …
Yury comes from Donetsk. He fled to Sevastopol because of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The letters "MKKK" on the box stand for "Международный Комитет Красного Креста" – "International Committee …
When people witness killings, or the looting of all their property, or when they are raped or tortured, they suffer from psychological trauma and require emergency help. Erica Pellizzari, a clinical …
The ICRC and the National Committee for Demining and Rehabilitation (NCDR) have been working together on various mine action activities for some years. The "Mine Risk Education'' programme, run by …
03-12-2014 Kathmandu (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Dhulikhel Hospital of Kathmandu University are jointly organizing three emergency-room trauma courses this year, …
The Health Care in Danger project was a central topic at the 12th African Union – ICRC joint seminar in Addis Ababa. Similarly, other events and workshops took place over the last few months. States …
Are you a doctor in a conflict zone wondering how to conduct yourself with the media, or a nurse wondering how to respond to requests from the police or the military for information on patients? Are …
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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.
