… Statement Maintenance of international peace and security: … standards and provides blast trauma care training for health personnel and first responders during …
… 01-06-2020 1 June 2020 - Facebook and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent … developed with Red Cross and Red Crescent health experts and targeting simultaneously … access to clean water, and supporting health care facilities and workers with training, …
… Statement to Arria Formula Meeting on Cyber Attacks Against Critical … life-saving treatment in the middle of a health crisis or an armed conflict, whole … there is a real risk that water, health care, and other essential services will be …
… New York, 11 December 2014. Improved coordination mechanisms, the development of … direct attacks on civilians (including health-care personnel), and massive destruction of …
… Conflict has made life hard for everyone in eastern Ukraine, but older people suffer … has been cut off for months, and the health centre is closed. Bringing in food or … They help each other and they take care of the most vulnerable – in particular …
… Statement The following is a statement from Dominik Stillhart, the … aid. Municipal workers, teachers, and health staff haven't been paid in five months. … and then die. At the paediatric intensive care unit the International Committee of the …
… – The 7th South Asian Regional Conference on International Humanitarian Law, jointly … the ICRC is doing to put an end to attacks on health workers and patients, go to Health Care in Danger website Follow the ICRC on …
… prompted mixed reactions around the world in recent years. Significant expressions of … must conduct an individual review assessing carefully and in good faith whether there are … depending on the quality and availability of health care in the country of return. The …
… for Mexico and Central America 2018 will remain in the memory of many as the year in which … migrants' needs do not: dignified treatment, health care, a safe place to stay and protection by …
… International humanitarian law (IHL) is a set … difficulty accessing basic services, such as health care, water, sanitation, shelter and food, as …
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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.
