A summary of the ICRC's activities in Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros in 2014. BULLETIN DELEGATION REGIONALE DU CICR POUR L’OCEAN INDIEN - FEVRIER 2015 COMITE INTERNATIONAL DE LA …
Interview with the head of the ICRC's delegation in Syria, Marianne Gasser, about the humanitarian situation in Aleppo where she went last week to gain fresh insight into the situation. The frequent …
Following the signing of the Minsk agreement in February, the ICRC is now able to operate in parts of the Donetsk region where this was impossible before. Activities include aiding the recovery and …
Valeriana Granse Franco beams with happiness as she wields a hoe in her strong, sun-beaten hands. The 75-year-old widow shares six hectares of land with her son, her daughter-in-law and her three …
Foreigners are a specific sub-category of civilian protected by international humanitarian law during armed conflict, which is how we started to work with migrants. Through our visits to places of …
16-03-2015 Kathmandu (ICRC) – A handbook for parliamentarians and other civilian authorities will be presented at a ceremony in Kathmandu tomorrow. It is written in both Nepali and English. Together …
Christoph Harnisch, head of the ICRC's delegation in Colombia, talks about the historical significance of the current situation in the country. There is hope that a peace agreement may bring an end …
As Liberia recovers from the ebola epidemic, survivors who have gone through the horrors of the disease now face stigma and fear. Yet what they need is to be accepted back into their families and …
Hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan still face great hardship, particularly in the conflict-stricken Darfur region. In the past four months, since the suspension of its work was lifted, the ICRC …
Foday Galah is an ambulance driver – and an Ebola survivor. He picked up Ebola because his protective clothing was slightly open when he collected a seriously-ill patient. With the money he received …
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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.
