… The News, a major newspaper in Pakistan, recently reported that 130 … violent incidents that result in injuries to health workers and damage to hospitals, … Hospital joined forces to launch a Health Care in Danger project to protect health …
… Health Care in Danger newsletter - March 2016 On 15 February, …
… to all United Nations Member States: We continue to sound the alarm. Scores of health-care workers are being killed or injured while …
… 18-09-2015 Harare (ICRC) – A seminar aimed at identifying best practices to improve access to essential health services during peace support … African countries. "When access to health care is hindered or blocked during …
… What can we do to prevent attacks against patients, health workers, hospitals and ambulances? This … outlines the recommendations of the Health Care in Danger initiative. It is aimed at …
… International humanitarian law (IHL) – also … SERVICE ON IHL RESPECTING AND PROTECTING HEALTH CARE IN ARMED CONFLICTS AND IN SITUATIONS NOT …
… Violence against health-care workers and facilities, … of the Movement launched the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative . This initiative has …
… According to a new global surveillance system, 105 attacks on health-care facilities, personnel or resources were …
… Representatives of health ministries, medical associations, academia, … committed to work on ensuring that health care is safe from disruption and violence in …
… gave access to Red Crescent volunteers in a riot – this is one of the stories told by the new set of five Health Care in Danger posters. Based on real cases, …
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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.
