… for their national specificities, in developing effective domestic legal … obligations for protecting the provision of health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies. …
… 18-12-2014 Cairo (ICRC) – Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross … in cooperation with Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population, held a conference for … implications of violence against health-care workers and facilities and to promote …
… Ladies and gentlemen, Dear colleagues, We met in New York exactly 149 days ago, for the … that have passed since then, attacks on health-care personnel, facilities and vehicles have …
… This Health Care in Danger report compiles a complete set of …
… Canberra (ICRC) – A new publication promoting military practice that better protects health-care workers and patients in armed conflict …
… In Afghanistan, getting to a central hospital … law applies to armed conflicts, protecting health facilities, patients, medical staff and … posters with messages about protecting health care services and personnel so that those …
… A number of reports in the past few years have shed light on the danger which have come upon Afghanistan's healthcare system. Doctors, nurses and even patients …
… 18-08-2020 More than 600 incidents of violence, harassment or stigmatization against health care workers, patients and medical …
… violence generate immediate and additional health-care requirements for wounded and sick people. These requirements increase at the very time when insecurity …
… Safe access to health care is essential for both civilians and combatants in conflict situations. But for this to …
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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.
