08-08-2024 Port Sudan (ICRC) – Two out of three Sudanese civilians no longer have access to essential health services after most of the country's hospitals and health centers were forced to close …
Ten months since the onset of renewed hostilities between Israel and Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza, the violence – unprecedented in scale and nature – continues to exact an immense human toll …
Manila Delegation, Makati Open-ended Forensics The Forensic Field Officer will support the Forensic Specialist in planning and implementing Protection and forensic programs in the Philippines. S/he …
MSSC, Makati Open-ended Human resources The Officer is part of the Contracts & Administration team, which is responsible for the HR administrative processing of employees, from hiring to retiring. …
MSSC, Makati Open-ended Finance and administration Service Delivery Manager 1 oversees specialized functional support teams. The role involves managing service delivery, promoting customer …
MSSC, Makati Open-ended Finance and administration Accounting Manager 1 is responsible for the accounting data produced and/or validated by the region or delegation or department under her/his …
MSSC, Makati Open-ended Finance and administration Accountant 2 is responsible for the management of field accounts payable and general ledger files, recording, analysing, and reconciling of all …
09-08-2024 The ICRC's touring exhibition Weaving Memory: The Legacy of Those Who Never Stopped Searching highlights the urgent need to continue searching for missing people until what happened to …
In Ethiopia, pastoralism is widely practiced in the Somali and Afar Regional States, and to a lesser extent in Oromia and other regions of the country. Pastoral lowlands are characterized by …
By Balthasar Staehelin, the personal envoy of the ICRC president to China and head of the Regional Delegation for East Asia Today marks the 75th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions adopted on …
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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.
