Climate change is an existential threat to humanity. It affects every aspect of people’s lives, both creating and exacerbating humanitarian crises around the world. Warming of the atmosphere, ocean …
The nation-wide crisis is personal for Nafisa and her six children. “We don't have oil and flour. There is nothing to eat at home,” says Nafisa, who lost her husband amid conflict. “Every day, I go …
Since 2012, Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon have been ravaged by recurring violence that has gone largely unnoticed by the global media. Displaced in Cameroon’s Far North Region, Hamadou, Hadidja, …
The International Committee of the Red Cross has introduced a livestock insurance program in support of long-term resiliency efforts that help communities recover from the devastating impact of …
How do we know if the International Committee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) humanitarian work is effective and successful? Evaluations are one of the key ways to answer this question. By pausing and …
Statement Written statement by Patrick Youssef, Regional Director - Africa of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Climate and …
Bangkok, 19 October 2022 – The ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM), ASEAN Secretariat, and the International committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) co-organized the 4th edition of the ASEAN-ICRC …
27-10-2022 Bamako (ICRC) – The suffering of millions of people in Mali and the wider Sahel region is rooted in the deadly combination of conflict and the climate crisis. Caught between advancing …
Devastating crop losses. Parched land. Millions of dead and dying cattle, goats and camels. Starving and severely malnourished children. Rising global grain prices that force families to go hungry. …
The National Society Investment Alliance (NSIA) is a pooled funding mechanism, run jointly by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International …
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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.
