… The year 2021 has been an interesting one for the International … rehabilitation, humanitarian forensics and health, this year saw a healthy mix of the old … on the issue of violence against health care culminated in the passage of the Khyber …
… Expert meeting report: This publication is a summary … weapons: The concerns and responsibilities of healthcare professionals, British Medical …
… given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. UN … essential services, such as electricity, health, education, water and sanitation. When … spread, hospitals struggle to provide care, schools go dark. Given the enormous …
… 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 …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross … such as sexual violence and attacks against health services, remain widespread. The fear … sources of food and livelihood, obtain health care and clean water, address their …
… needs to be done to protect men, boys and/including LGBTIQ+ people at risk of sexual and … which respond to trauma, including mental health, sexual and reproductive health … and development of appropriate and accessible care. This report draws on existing secondary …
… and political and socio-economic crises continue to ravage the Sahel region, Peter Maurer, … to make long and dangerous journeys to access health care. We estimate that nearly 1.5 million …
… In collaboration with the Nigerian Red Cross … materials, door and window parts. Six Primary Health Care Centres (PHCC) were rehabilitated and one …
… In 2019, the ICRC commissioned an external evaluation of the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative. This …
… Thousands of Colombians continue to live in the shadow of armed conflict, … Colombia continued to focus on countering the health, economic, and social effects of the … and encounter difficulties in accessing care routes. To stay or to go Confinement and …
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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.
