… A recent report drafted by the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, in collaboration … non-discriminatory and impartial provision of health care, which is protected under international …
… when she was forced to flee the conflict in north-east Nigeria. Despite the advanced … But not enough to survive. Famata has taken care of her two orphaned grandchildren since … be doomed," Samuel Okech, responsible for health programs in Maiduguri for the …
… In Yemen, the ICRC delivers emergency assistance in the realms of health care, economic security and water and …
… Facts & Figures The ICRC has been present in Ethiopia since the beginning of the 1977 … supplies and emergency kits to 20 primary health care units and 13 hospitals Distributed …
… an update on the 2016 report ' Translating the Kampala Convention into Practice: A … etc.) and access essential services (medical care, education, etc.). For other actors … shelter and essential services, such as health care and education. While doing so, …
… Statement Statement to the UN Open-ended working group on developments in the field of … rules are all the more important because health infrastructure is often not adequately … view, the particular vulnerability of health care facilities may also warrant the …
… Humanitarian challenges 2020 In 2020, the peace agreement signed between … recorded 218 cases of aggression against health workers and facilities, some of them … illegal mining. Seeking or providing medical care has become an act of courage in …
… peace has not yet borne the promised fruit in the most vulnerable regions of the country, … and there were 218 acts of aggression against health workers and facilities. These were, … of armed confrontations. Photo: ICRC Health care under threat The institutional response …
… 07-03-2020 Sanaa/Geneva (ICRC) - Intense fighting on the frontline between … without food, shelter, and access to medical care. Marib Governorate already has a large … dignified treatment of the dead in support of health facilities. “I’ve met people from all …
… As COVID-19 focuses the world’s attention on infectious diseases, we have our eyes on one … packed people and (often) limited access to health care make for a risky situation. Overcrowding, …
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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.
