… 29-03-2021 The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, … to clean water or electricity. Half of all health facilities are out of service or only … camp provides emergency life-saving surgical care and medical consultations. We also …
… Journalists are instrumental in raising awareness of wars and … universal acknowledgement that hospitals and health-care workers should be protected in conflict …
… / Bogotá (ICRC) – Colombians are still suffering the consequences of the conflict and other … as contact with their families and access to health care. Certain humanitarian issues will remain …
… of the Asia-Pacific region will gather in Kuala Lumpur from 25–27 March for a … in particular legal initiatives such as health care in danger and international disaster …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross … armed conflict. The agenda will also include health care during armed conflict and the IHL …
… Killings and acts of physical violence committed … first aid, they are unable to provide proper care for combat casualties. For fighters and … all the more important as the small number of health-care facilities in the country that …
… The history of warfare is full of instances of sieges being used as a method of … whenever feasible. In particular, constant care must be taken to spare the civilian … satisfactory conditions of shelter, hygiene, health, safety (including from sexual and …
… Weapon Risks Symposium, United Nations Institute for Disarmamaent Research (UNIDIR), … and long-term effects on people, societies, health-care systems and the environment. The …
… The civilian population continues to bear the brunt of the war. We wish … communities who had been displaced and who, scared for their lives, took the only way out … to essential services such as drinking water, health care, food, education and, in general, …
… The ICRC has been present in Sudan since 1978 helping people affected by … Law (IHL), supporting hospitals and health facilities with equipment and supplies, … FAMILIES • Evacuated 300 children and 72 caretakers from Maygoma orphanage in Khartoum …
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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.
