Health care in danger: Military assistance in facilitating safe access to health care
… Colombia, checkpoint near Chuapal, San José del Guaviare. … and an military tank meet at an interchange. Health-care providers and military personnel often …
… Colombia, checkpoint near Chuapal, San José del Guaviare. … and an military tank meet at an interchange. Health-care providers and military personnel often …
… humanitarian issues of today: violence against health care. Attacking health-care structures and …
… It first travelled to Stockholm to take part in the 150th anniversary celebrations of the … media. A round-table on the safety of Swedish health-care personnel was also organized, and …
… This course provides an introduction to the laws governing health care services in armed conflict, and explains …
… 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 …
… "Health Care in Danger: Meeting the Challenges" is a …
… A humanitarian worker caught up in the conflict in Mali, a religious leader in … d'Ivoire, and many others striving to protect health-care services share their stories of courage …
… The impact of violence on health-care workers was a central topic at the 20th Inter-American Conference of the Red Cross in …
… of the serious consequences of violence against health-care workers and facilities. Similarly, other …
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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.