… more than 240 attacks on medical facilities, in violation of humanitarian laws. These … attacks erode an already extremely fragile health system: They have damaged or destroyed … and many patients have been afraid to seek care. Children are among those paying the …
… What do we really know about violence against health care in conflict? Not enough, according to a …
… The Advanced IHL Learning Series are addressed to lecturers and … responsibility include legal protection for health care, particular in the context of the …
… today reveals five times more civilians die in offensives carried out in cities than in … fleeing. Essential urban services like water, health care, electricity and schools are damaged, …
… Journalists are instrumental in raising awareness of wars and … universal acknowledgement that hospitals and health-care workers should be protected in conflict …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… never happens by accident. It is always intentional, and this has a crucial … provided as part of a broader emergency health-care approach benefitting the general …
… In 2016, the ICRC continued to help thousands … and the ICRC facilitated a round table on health in detention with the prison … NS Roundtable on Safer Access and Health Care in Danger. ICRC further supported 3 KRCS …
… A man storms into the operating theatre. He is angry and … taken her life, she almost resigned from her career that she considers her destiny. Rita … child, and he wanted revenge. Attacks on health facilities add pressure on the already …
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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.
