Health care in Gaza: Priorities and challenges
"If people don't have access to their hospitals, where are they meant to go?" asks Kirrily Clarke, our Hospital Project Manager in Gaza. Find out in this clip how we have been assisting the Gazan …
"If people don't have access to their hospitals, where are they meant to go?" asks Kirrily Clarke, our Hospital Project Manager in Gaza. Find out in this clip how we have been assisting the Gazan …
Five months after violence disrupted humanitarian operations in Rakhine state, the ICRC has restarted a full range of activities there for the Muslim and ethnic Rakhine communities alike. "The Muslim …
09-09-2014 Sana'a/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is shocked by the death of an ambulance driver working for Yemen's Ministry of Public Health and Population. …
Article by Daniel Palmieri At the outbreak of the Great War, the ICRC had already been operating for over 50 years. Although international in name, the ICRC was actually a local philanthropic …
The ICRC delegation to the African Union (AU), based in Addis Ababa, works with the AU to draw attention to humanitarian issues, promote implementation of international humanitarian law throughout …
37th round table on current issues of international humanitarian law: Conduct of hostilities: the Practice, the Law and the Future, Sanremo, 4 - 6 September 2014. Article by Laurent Gisel, legal …
05-09-2014 Fighting in Iraq has displaced over 1.5 million people. The ICRC has delivered food, drinking water, other relief items and medical assistance to more than a million people since January, …
As an open-ended cease fire promises relief from a 51-day conflict in Gaza, the ICRC and its partner, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), are boosting their efforts to help those whose lives …
Facing massive displacement that has resulted from the fighting, health services in South Sudan are working under enormous pressure. Since the outbreak of violence in December, the ICRC has worked …
Speaker: Yves Daccord, Director-General, ICRC. Where: Chatham House, London When: 04.09.2014 Chair : Lord Mark Malloch-Brown Listen to an audio recording from this event on Chatham House's …
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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.