… People fleeing the violence in North Kivu Province often … choice. "The water we use is not good for our health. It gives the children scabies," says … at Beni General Hospital or in other health-care centres funded by the ICRC. …
… UPDATE: The deadline for the Young Humanitarian Writers … www.icrc.org/eng/what-we-do/safeguarding-health-care/index.jsp … or natural disasters. 2. Health care in danger or the protection of health workers and …
… In Yemen, the ICRC delivers emergency assistance in the realms of health care, economic security and water and …
… Meeting of States Parties, Anti-Personnel Mine Ban … 2025 commitments; and Victims can access the care, rehabilitation and socio-economic … and electrical facilities, hospitals and health services. Given the enormous costs for …
… In 2016, the ICRC commissioned WIN/Gallup … the ICRC has been supporting communities and health-care facilities, running physical …
… With the escalation of violence in Israel, and the occupied Palestinian … delicate operations. This trust, and our careful and principle-driven approach, is what … for safe drinking water or facing illness as health conditions worsen. More recently, the …
… Sitting through my first course of International … laws relating to ongoing projects, such as healthcare, data sharing, privacy policies etc. As a …
… that patient" ICRC Director of Operations, Dominik Stillhart's address to the 2018 second … and this further disrupts water supplies and health services; The health care system has been severely impacted and is …
… Since fighting ended in the conflict in … We now have fewer inmates suffering from health complications,” says Belete Lakew, a … northern Ethiopia, houses, farmlands, healthcare centers and schools are heavily …
… 26-11-2014 Geneva (ICRC) – For 2015, the International Committee of the Red Cross … epidemic has tested the capacities of fragile health services and is further exacerbating … to health needs, particularly surgical care for the wounded, health care for …
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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.
