… An update of our activities in central Mindanao, Philippines. Content: The … water for vulnerable communities in Pikit Health: Life-saving support without … Everybody understands that we have to take care of our water system,” Tani added. A …
… Mali, like other countries in the Sahel region, is in the grip of an … they realized that it failed to meet World Health Organization standards and was unfit … food, and to cover social security and health care costs, expenses relating to farming and …
… Civilian areas have not been spared the fighting. All sides have suffered. CC … conditions. Homes, hospitals, civilians and health workers have been attacked. Water and … Wounded have the right to receive medical care Rules of war in a nutshell …
… When someone goes missing due to conflict, the children they leave … Program Enrollee The ICRC’s mental health and psychosocial support teams in … because she is the only one I know that cares for me after my father went missing. I …
… 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 …
… In late February 2016, our president Peter … The most basic things – food, water, shelter, health care – nothing can be taken for granted …
… Since 2014, the Lake Chad crisis has been … to leave for their own safety. Schools, health facilities and humanitarian … no longer move freely, and access to health care, education and markets is disrupted. …
… with Wide Area Effects: A Deadly Choice in Populated Areas' report calls for a change … including water, electricity, sanitation and health care Contamination by unexploded ordnance …
… “When I was shot in the abdomen some years ago, I did not know … Contador-Kelsall / ICRC Jeremy Trur, the ICRC Health Officer in charge of the First Aid … burns. Unfortunately, during fights, health care is not always accessible whether it be …
… A man storms into the operating theatre. He is angry and … taken her life, she almost resigned from her career that she considers her destiny. Rita … child, and he wanted revenge. Attacks on health facilities add pressure on the already …
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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.
