Water and habitat: Responding to emergencies
People arrive in IDP or refugee camps in desperate need of food, water and shelter. ICRC water and habitat staff build safe, healthy places for them to stay, working alongside them. Our massive …
People arrive in IDP or refugee camps in desperate need of food, water and shelter. ICRC water and habitat staff build safe, healthy places for them to stay, working alongside them. Our massive …
The ICRC has committed itself to reinforcing its response to sexual violence in armed conflicts. Our director of operations, Pierre Krahenbuhl, talks about the appalling and brutal nature of sexual …
2013 marks the 30th anniversary of the ICRC’s Water and Habitat Unit. Their engineers help ensure that people have access to this vital resource using affordable technologies and sustainable …
Statement Statement by the ICRC, meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on …
Colombia, checkpoint near Chuapal, San José del Guaviare. Security concerns must be balanced by humanitarian considerations in all situations. This means giving ambulances and other medical vehicles …
In recent years, parties to armed conflicts have increasingly recruited private military and security companies (PMSCs) to undertake tasks traditionally carried out by the armed forces. The …
Private military and security companies – known as PMSCs – working in situations of armed conflict are also obliged to respect the provisions of international humanitarian law (IHL). What are PMSCs? …
Statement …
Emergency appeals 2014: Budget by country …
Pinalanga, Samar Island. The flag of the Philippines surrounded by a landscape of destroyed coconut trees. Typhoon Haiyan, which brought winds of up to 300 km per hour, damaged crops and thousands of …
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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.