While fighting across Afghanistan has decreased significantly in the last year, Afghan families’ struggle to survive has not. The combined effects of a paralyzed banking system, lack of cash and job …
Neither Luis, Jorge, or Lisseth were born in the city of Santa Elena de Uairén, in the state of Bolívar, but due to different life circumstances, they were all in Santa Elena when the COVID-19 …
MSSC, Makati Open-ended Finance and administration The responsibilities of the CTR Cluster Lead are to ensure the sector’s accounting activities and information are correctly organized and detailed …
In an emergency, giving people money is often the best way to help them. So long as people have access to markets that are functioning, cash enables them to make their own decisions about what they …
… also causes loss of livelihoods. For safety, jobs are left behind. Some of those who left …
The ICRC's work with disabled people in Afghanistan helps them live an active role in society through physical rehabilitation, education, employment, micro-credit loans, vocational training and …
The trauma of displacement, the debilitating pain of polio and the scars of discrimination are not visible when Noor Islam Amirzai, part of Afghanistan’s national cricket team for people with …
… that the young people have a chance to find jobs and earn some sort of income. I try my …
The project brief elaborates on the short- and long-term support that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Red Cross Society (DPRK RCS) …
Ingy Sedky The Syrian woman poured a glass of muddy water and handed it to me. "Drink it!" my host said. It was a hot summer day in August in a shelter in the middle of the desert. I eyed the dark …
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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.
