… Since 2001, the International Committee of the … forum, and the institution of an efficient health system. The Kampala Convention was … of IDPs to essential services such as health care and education ; Need to realize the full …
… 15-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC)—Rising food prices and job losses triggered by … Red Crescent societies and local clinics and health care facilities to treat moderate and severe …
… Project (MCSP), the World Bank will continue to fund ICRC’s interventions to help … remain the same, rehabilitation of community health structures will also be included. Therefore, safeguards for healthcare waste management have been included in …
… Despite the long-term desire of the international community to explore and use … example, civilian infrastructure needed for health care, transportation, communications, energy …
… People go missing in Africa during armed conflicts, other … missing person, economic situation, mental health and psychosocial issues, legal and … parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, …
… and access to food and nutritious diets, both in the short and medium-term, for targeted … reports on the environmental, social, health and safety (ESHS) performance of the … receiving displaced persons) will be carefully planned and implemented. This Parent …
… Hostilities Unit at the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross … irreversible effects of nuclear weapons on health, the environment, the climate and food … as electricity, water, sanitation and health care. Lack of essential services typically …
… of the world's most vulnerable people live in increasingly unsafe and impoverished … water, sewerage, waste disposal and health care are more dependent than ever on complex …
… 37th round table on current issues of international humanitarian law: Conduct of … effects, from the malfunctioning of heath care structures to the spread of diseases. It … attainable standard of physical and mental health, Paul Hunt; the Representative of the …
… classification of armed conflict – determining whether a situation of violence is an … and wounded persons must be collected and cared for, without any discrimination and in … age-appropriate access to education, food and health care. When deprived of their liberty, …
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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.
