On World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, we launch a global conversation celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's adoption of the Fundamental …
Jenneh and some of her 25 children. Jenneh Kaizolu (39) is an Ebola survivor from Paynesville, Monrovia. She lost her mother, brother and two sisters to Ebola. She is now taking care of 25 children: …
As the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement strives to reach remote areas that had been cut off by the devastating earthquake, the ICRC is concentrating on helping people discover the fate of their …
Over the past year, Sithembile Chiware, ICRC cooperation programme manager in Harare, Zimbabwe, has been deployed to three different countries to support National Red Cross Society emergency response …
09-05-2015 Geneva/Juba (ICRC) - The ICRC is extremely concerned for the wellbeing of tens of thousands of people who have reportedly fled fierce clashes in South Sudan's Unity State in recent days. …
The latest newsletter from our delegation in Sri Lanka features a variety of articles, including updates on our work in the country, the launch of a new programme, and facts and figures on our …
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11-05-2015 Baghdad/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said an enormous effort is needed to cope with a dramatic increase in the number of people forced to flee …
11-05-2015 Amman (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross has launched an Arabic version of its Restoring Family Links website www.familylinks.icrc.org , to make it easier for people in …
Benefiting from a respite in the fighting, Salfig Marah and his wife Fatima have just returned to Rabiah, a small town located on the border with Syria. Almost all of its 24,000 inhabitants fled the …
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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.
