… Fighting an outbreak in an area rife with violence … here in Beni. Everyone is afraid. You're scared of even your brother and your friend … or not," says Euloge, a nurse at a private health centre in Beni. Like Euloge, many …
… Statement Meeting of States Parties, Anti-Personnel Mine Ban … 2025 commitments; and Victims can access the care, rehabilitation and socio-economic … and electrical facilities, hospitals and health services. Given the enormous costs for …
… is severely malnourished and is undergoing life-saving treatment. She is far from alone. The intensive care unit (ICU) at the main hospital in … influx of people coming in search of food and health care. It places a strain on …
… Libya continues to grapple with the consequences of the … the country's basic infrastructure, including healthcare, education, water, and sanitation. In …
… action on behalf of the separated, the missing and the deceased, but also the overall … insights in other areas such as migration, health care in danger, addressing sexual violence, …
… for Mexico and Central America 2018 will remain in the memory of many as the year in which … migrants' needs do not: dignified treatment, health care, a safe place to stay and protection by …
… International humanitarian law (IHL) is a set … difficulty accessing basic services, such as health care, water, sanitation, shelter and food, as …
… prompted mixed reactions around the world in recent years. Significant expressions of … must conduct an individual review assessing carefully and in good faith whether there are … depending on the quality and availability of health care in the country of return. The …
… – The 7th South Asian Regional Conference on International Humanitarian Law, jointly … the ICRC is doing to put an end to attacks on health workers and patients, go to Health Care in Danger website Follow the ICRC on …
… Statement The following is a statement from Dominik Stillhart, the … aid. Municipal workers, teachers, and health staff haven't been paid in five months. … and then die. At the paediatric intensive care unit the International Committee of the …
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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.
