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ICRC Rwanda Restoring Family Links
In the turmoil disaster and conflict, family members can be separated. The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Committee for the Red Cross Rwanda Delegation and the network of Rwanda Red Cross around the globe try to locate people and put them back into contact with their missing relatives. The service is free of charge and incorporates tracing, messaging services and family re-unification.
Red Cross Messages
The Rwanda International Committee for the Red Cross and Rwanda Red Cross helps families stay in touch through the use of Red Cross Messages (RCMs). These are unsealed letters on a two-page form that can be detached and retained by the recipient. The first page is used by the sender for his or her message. The second page contains the reply. The identities and full addresses of the sender and his correspondent appear on both pages. RCMs enable relatives to exchange news of a personal nature through the network of Red Cross and Red International Committee for the Red Cross worldwide.
ICRC Rwanda Forensic
When people die during
war, disaster or migration, their bodies must be handled respectfully and with
dignity. The remains of individuals must be found, recovered and identified.
Humanitarian work has come to include these tasks, and forensic
science offers the necessary tools and expertise
Jobs In Forensic
The ICRC's Forensic service promote and support forensic best practices, in order to ensure the proper management and identified dead bodies and to help prevent and resolve the tragedy of proper encountered for as a result of armed conflict and other situations of armed violence. Their objective is to guarantee the dignified management of the dead and upload the right of bereaved families to know what happened to their loved ones.
ICRC Rwanda IHL
ICRC International Humanitarian Law
ICRC has the core mandate of promoting IHL within national authorities, academic, practitioners, military, Law enforcement organs.
- Regular national and regional advanced training on IHL
and its contemporary challenges
- National and Regional competitions on IHL
- Youth Dialogues on IHL
- Public Lecture on different IHL specific topics
Promoting International Humanitarian Law among Rwandan law students


A member from one of the competing teams delivers a statement during the fourth Annual National Moot Court Competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) held in Kigali, Rwanda.
The Treaties,
States Parties and Commentaries includes the text of IHL
treaties and related documents and lists the States that have signed and/or
ratified or acceded to the treaties, with their potential reservations or
declarations. It also contains the existing commentaries to the four 1949
Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, and include the updated Commentaries.
The Treaties,
States Parties and Commentaries includes the text of IHL
treaties and related documents and lists the States that have signed and/or
ratified or acceded to the treaties, with their potential reservations or
declarations. It also contains the existing commentaries to the four 1949
Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, and include the updated Commentaries.
Regular national and regional advanced training
on IHL and its contemporary challenges
The National implementation
contains laws and case law that implement IHL treaties and other
related international instruments, and illustrates possible approaches to
incorporating IHL in national legal and administrative frameworks. The
collection has topics organised by state and most of the documents in this
collection are entered with a summary to facilitate their consultation.

Judges, court registrars,
researchers and inspectors of the High Court-Chamber of International Crimes
and the Court of the Appeal pose for a picture during the IHL training. The
ICRC, acting in accordance with its mandate as the guardian of IHL, promotes
IHL in Rwanda and throughout the world.
Fourth Annual IHL Moot Court
Competition 2019
Please Look for more about ICRC IHL Moot Competition In Rwanda:
ICRC Support Treaty Participation and National Implementation
The National implementation
contains laws and case law that implement IHL treaties and other
related international instruments, and illustrates possible approaches to
incorporating IHL in national legal and administrative frameworks. The
collection has topics organised by state and most of the documents in this
collection are entered with a summary to facilitate their consultation.
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW Answers to your Questions:Tuesday, February 25, 2020
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