… June 2022 | Time: 08:30 - 17:00 Venue: Centre International de Conférences Genève, Rue de … Switzerland PROGRAMME Statement of Purpose Health in detention is public health. Health authorities, senior management, healthcare and safety workers, academics and …
… Attacks on health-care providers and their patients are frequent in modern conflict despite being expressly …
… UNSC Arria-formula meeting: Addressing challenges of children without parental care in conflict settings. 3 December 2021 … essential, life-saving services such as health care and education. Children often end …
… Statement HL Side Event on Protection of Health Care: Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. …
… from the ICRC on the conditions of migrants in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. … giving birth on the road without any medical care and sometimes facing obstacles for … rights and services such as education or health. Operational response: Between October …
… Safe access to health care is essential for both civilians and combatants in conflict situations. But for this to …
… violence generate immediate and additional health-care requirements for wounded and sick people. These requirements increase at the very time when insecurity …
… 18-08-2020 More than 600 incidents of violence, harassment or stigmatization against health care workers, patients and medical …
… 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 …
… Canberra (ICRC) – A new publication promoting military practice that better protects health-care workers and patients in armed conflict …
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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.
