Health Care in Danger: News
… The Health Care in Danger project was a central topic at the 12th …
… The Health Care in Danger project was a central topic at the 12th …
… Dr Nehal Hefny, Programs and Projects Coordinator at the Egyptian Red Crescent Society. The latest newsletter of the Health Care in Danger project features a variety of …
… Rules of War (in a nutshell) This year marks the 150th … protect the sick and the wounded, as well as health-care personnel and facilities, during armed …
… Editorial - Health Care in Danger Newsletter, December 2014 And the …
… Since December 2013, when the conflict began, … of cholera. We asked Veronica Kenyi, SSRC health manager, to tell us how her National … South Sudan affecting the delivery of health care? Health facilities are being looted and …
… The general hospital in Timbuktu, where Abdoul Aziz Ould Mohamed … What were the main challenges to providing health care in Mali? The first challenge was …
… A new publication presents measures to minimize the impact of military operations on the delivery of health care. Data gathered by the ICRC since 2012 in …
… ICRC medical adviser Dr Robin Coupland visited Australia recently to … attend the World Medical Association's Global Health Summit. During his visit, we talked to him about his long career as an ICRC surgeon and perspectives on …
… has passed legislation aimed at protecting the red cross and red crescent emblems in … law. In addition, in connection with its "Health Care in Danger" campaign, it has organized a …
… New York, 11 December 2014. Improved coordination mechanisms, the development of … direct attacks on civilians (including health-care personnel), and massive destruction of …
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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.