… When people die during emergency and disaster situations, their … a forthcoming body to address provision of health care in dangerous situations. Over five days, …
… Investigations into alleged violations of … of an investigation requires that sufficient care is taken in the investigative steps, and … Mechanisms for Investigating Attacks on Healthcare”, International Peace Institute …
… The ICRC commissioned this assessment in 2019 to analyse the capacity and capability … development economics, and public health and infectious diseases. Glenn O’Neil, … Evaluation’ (2017), and the ‘ICRC Health Care in Danger Evaluation Report’ (2017) 27 …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross … be broadcasting a short film on the risks to health-care '#NotATarget' in Filmstaden cinemas …
… from 14 November 2019 to 30 January 2020, the International Committee of the Red Cross … be broadcasting a short film on the risks to health-care #NotATarget in ZRT cinemas in Budapest. …
… Recommitting to protection in armed conflict on the … sanitation and electricity, and deprived of health care; such privation is aggravated when cities …
… Since 2003, the ICRC, in cooperation with the … who no longer participate to the fighting, to health services and other civilian … of hosting other events related to healthcare in danger activities initiated by the …
… The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and … for collecting data on violence against health care. Participants will share challenges and …
… leg has not slowed him down, and he has no intention of it setting him back now. Faris … needs to be amputated," he said. A crumbling health care system Years of war and economic turmoil …
… In the province of Kasai, the ethnic violence … dubbed the "warlords" by the women. "We were scared, very scared, but we all went together," … in Kakenge to help pay for food, schooling, health care and the rebuilding of houses. The …
Try one of the following resources:
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.
