… 09-08-2020 Baghdad – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent … violence and acts of intimidation against health workers and urges respect for all … an already difficult situation. Health-care staff, hospitals & ambulances are often …
… 18-08-2020 More than 600 incidents of violence, harassment or stigmatization against health care workers, patients and medical …
… (ICRC)— War-torn Libya's COVID-19 cases have increased more than 15-fold in less than two … today . More than half a million people need health care assistance as conflict, COVID-19 and …
… Following a resolution adopted by the International … States Parties to provide assistance for the care and rehabilitation, and social and … 69/132 (11 December 2014) on Global Health and Foreign Policy, which refers to …
… Statement to Arria Formula Meeting on Cyber Attacks Against Critical … life-saving treatment in the middle of a health crisis or an armed conflict, whole … there is a real risk that water, health care, and other essential services will be …
… states and communities across the globe. Like in many other countries, the International … following key operational areas: Supporting health-care facilities Health care infrastructure …
… the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons I. Introduction 1. On 2 March 2020, the … effects of the nuclear explosions on human health, the environment and medical … activities, trade, communications, health-care facilities and schools. [10] No state or …
… Maputo (ICRC)—Attacks on towns and villages in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo … centre will help the community respond to the health crisis, but these families cannot … been burned to the ground, schools and health care facilities looted and destroyed, and …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross … across Ireland, a short film on the risks to health-care #NotATarget, from 14 September to 18 …
… ICRC Africa deputy regional director Linh Schroeder gave evidence to the UK … threats are already overlapping with existing health and economic crises." The past months … the ICRC most is the weak state of health care structures [in areas affected by …
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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.
