… 24-06-2025 To improve delivery of health care services in Mindanao, health care workers … the world, heightened its Healthcare in Danger prevention campaign in the Philippines …
… concerned about the overall decline in the health-care system in North and South Kivu, in … thousands of people’s lives could be in danger. The ICRC’s teams carried out a study …
… We did so through support to hospitals and health centres in conflict-affected areas, … including supporting and restoring health care services, livelihoods, and most … and storage sites further adds to the danger posing an ongoing threat to civilians. …
… exchanged in favour of visited detainees. Healthcare in Detention • 47,000 detainees gained … National Society Development, Health Care in Danger, Health, Water and Habitat, Economic …
… thousands of people in need across Iraq: • Health care access : 10 mobile clinics supported by … support in emergency response, health care in danger, climate action, and restoring family …
… Each day, hundreds of patients and their caretakers rely on these medical professionals … It stands as a testament to the courage of health workers and the will to survive of the … risked their lives daily, travelling into dangerous areas to reach the wounded and …
… within evacuation zones are extremely dangerous. All the patients in recent weeks … sessions 1,549 Recipients of Mental Health and Psycho-Social Support … programme in collaboration with other health-care providers [1] . This programme is part of …
… KENYA WORKING TOWARDS STRENGTHENING PRISON HEALTH SYSTEM AND IMPROVING HEALTH CARE OF INMATES IN KENYA PRISON SERVICE In … called the forgotten route, capturing the danger and challenges for migrants transiting …
… an overwhelming daily struggle to survive the dangers of hostilities, cope with relentless … to continue providing much-needed medical care to patients. The deterioration of the … by repeated attacks impacting the work of healthcare facilities and medical personnel. …
… to protect ourselves from snakes and other dangerous creatures at night,” shared one … us." The ICRC is enabling access to medical care by affected people through our support to health centres and the MRCS mobile clinic. Our …
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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.
