… Burkina Faso has been experiencing a humanitarian … What little water they do have, they ration carefully. Hygiene and sanitation are … women. Samuel TURPIN/ICRC Q: What is the health care situation in rural areas? …
… persist One month after a ceasefire deal in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict came into … hygiene facilities, clean water Mental health and psychosocial support Damage to … the region, as of early December: HEALTH CARE 15 hospitals and medical facilities …
… 15th Annual Regional Seminar on International Humanitarian Law 18 – 21 … Minister Landers noted the importance of the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) Project, which was …
… Statement by Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of Red Cross Secretary … less than adequate water, food, shelter and health services. Millions of children are out … by providing water, food, shelter and health care. And we do so, protected by law and …
… In December 2016, the ICRC launched four … improved access to services at ICRC-supported health facilities. Those unable to reach these … sick and wounded people to suitable medical care by providing financial, material and …
… 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, …
… 17-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Seven years of raging conflict in Yemen has exhausted the … The access to essential needs such as basic health care is also dangerously limited in several …
… Statement Statement by Dominik Stillhart, director of global operations … access to schools, farm fields, markets and health care. How can families move forward? To …
… Colombia has had to contend with escalating violence and armed conflict as well as the … is taking an immense toll on the mental health of affected communities and making it … a regrettable record of attacks on health-care workers, facilities and vehicles, and …
… Leer, Mayendit, and Koch counties in Unity state of South Sudan have been … medicines and medical equipment in a Primary Healthcare Center (PHCC) supported by the ICRC. "We …
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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.
