Health Care in Detention: A Practical Guide
his booklet contains practical advice for assessing public health and its determinants in laces of detention throughout the world. It draws heavily on the ICRC's extensive experience in this field. …
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Distinction: Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict
The cornerstone of the 1977 Additional Protocols is the principle of distinction. This leaflet provides a concise overview of the requirements of all parties to an armed conflict to distinguish …
A Guide to the Legal Review of New Weapons, Means and Methods of Warfare
This Guide aims to assist States in establishing or improving procedures to determine the legality of new weapons, means and methods of warfare in accordance with Article 36 of Protocol I Additional …
Checklist: Domestic measures to implement the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, known informally as the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, …
Mobile Health Units: Methodological Approach
The ICRC has been deploying mobile health units (MHUs) in certain operational contexts. MHUs form part of a strategy involving the provision of occasional ambulatory health services. This strategy is …
Antenatal Guidelines for Primary Health Care in Crisis Conditions
Within the area of mother and childcare, antenatal care plays a key role in reducing death, disease and suffering among women, whose vulnerability is always exacerbated by armed conflict and poor …
Explosive Remnants of War
This brochure highlights the risks posed by unexploded and abandoned ordnance in war-affected countries, and summarizes the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War, a treaty adopted by States in 2003 …
First Aid in Armed Conflicts and Other Situations of Violence
A practical manual presenting the specific knowledge, skills and practices that First Aiders should have to act safely and effectively when caring for people caught up in armed conflicts and other …
The Need to Know: Restoring Links between Dispersed Family Members
This publication explains how the Family Links network operates and why its services are so important. It describes situations in which family separations occur, and the many ways in which the …
Addressing Internal Displacement in Times of Armed Conflict and Other Violence
At the end of 2016 there were more than 40 million internally displaced people worldwide. They suffer extreme hardship as displacement disrupts their lives and livelihoods and exposes them to a host …
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