New Report - Domestic Normative Frameworks for the Protection of Health Care
… ICRC has released a new report, part of its Health Care in Danger campaign, with recommendations for …
… ICRC has released a new report, part of its Health Care in Danger campaign, with recommendations for …
… Many people fleeing the armed violence in Burkina Faso have … basic services, particularly food, water and health care, under increasing strain. The population …
… gave access to Red Cross volunteers during a riot – this is one of the stories told by the new set of five Health Care in Danger posters. Based on real cases, …
… The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) recently incorporated HCiD recommendations into their … while preserving people's access to health-care services. In true military fashion, the …
… Tehran (ICRC) – A round-table meeting took place today on the challenges of protecting health-care workers from violence during conflict and …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross … competition is "Trends of violence against health-care workers and facilities". The competition …
… What do we really know about violence against health care in conflict? Not enough, according to a …
… Protecting the sick and wounded in armed conflict was … to protection and must have access to the health care they need. The humanitarian crisis in …
… could use them. But I thought I could get the injured man into a taxi and to hospital. I … Asim Rafiqui/NOOR for ICRC Attacks against health-care workers, hospitals and ambulances disrupt …
… On the occasion of International Human Rights Day – we, the … organizations, speak out in support of the Health Care in Danger initiative. We forcefully renew …
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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.