… pandemic has further destabilized public health systems already weakened by war and natural disasters in Yemen , Syria , Iraq , Gaza , Occupied … COVID-19 Hospitals in Gaza are striving to care for COVID19 patients with only four hours …
… In Egypt, the International Committee of the … humanitarian law (IHL), and cooperates with healthcare providers to help them boost their …
… 15-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC)—Rising food prices and job losses triggered by … Red Crescent societies and local clinics and health care facilities to treat moderate and severe …
… General debate on all disarmament and international security agenda items Delivered … operations, parties must take constant care to spare the civilian population, … in the water and electricity supply, health care and other services essential to …
… UN and Head of Delegation, New York Good morning, distinguished colleagues and ambassadors. … and long-term effects on people, societies, health-care systems and the environment. Answering a …
… A number of reports in the past few years have shed light on the danger which have come upon Afghanistan's healthcare system. Doctors, nurses and even patients …
… is very important as we actively participate in patients’ treatment. Following the triage … system, we categorize patients based on their health conditions so that those who need … home. At the outset of the pandemic, we were scared because of the virus spread. But we have …
… Even wars have limits. They are defined by International Humanitarian Law which … na visokim državnim pozicijama u Osmanskoj Carevini, odnosno, da su djeca iz Bosne i … for every human being across the globe. A healthy spirit, strong morals and an …
… In mid-November, after the first week of … and deliver medicines and supplies to health care facilities and ambulances, which we had …
… Addis Ababa (ICRC)–A day after fighting around the Tigray state capital Mekelle, local hospitals and health facilities are running dangerously low on medical supplies to care for the wounded as well as other mounting …
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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.
