… patients and ensuring they receive the right care. He performs two or three surgeries daily … in a trauma training course organized for health-care professionals by the International … from becoming targets. Health Care in Danger (HCiD) is an initiative of the …
… violent acts that obstruct the delivery of health care, damage or destroy facilities and … The Health-Care in Danger project seeks to understand the …
… staff who put themselves on the line to care for others while working in the most dangerous conditions. 12 May marks 200 years … of the Nurse and the Midwife by the World Health Assembly in Nightingale's honor. This …
… Celebrating the amazing work of health care workers and volunteers on the frontlines … of people like them: around the world, in dangerous and unstable places, neutral, …
… that resulted in a report titled Access to Health Care during Armed Conflict and Other … adverse distinction. Read: Health Care in Danger Newsletter, January-June 2015 …
… The ICRC has provided supplies for over 20 health-care facilities in the country since July. … with extremely limited resources in a dangerous working environment. "Because of the …
… to prioritize in their political agendas the care and protection of victims and communities … and impede access to basic services, such as health care and education. Sexual violence is … that must not be forgotten. Health care in danger. Prisons, migration and use of force. …
… of people at risk of being "left behind" in dangerous and neglected urban areas. Vital … water, sewerage, waste disposal and health care are more dependent than ever on complex …
… Similarly, when cooperating with local health-care systems or treating local populations, … health-care personnel at risk and thus endangers the provision of medical care. …
… It expanded its support to hospitals, primary health centers, physical rehabilitation … Sulaymaniyah, and Dohuk. STRENGTHENING HEALTH CARE SERVICES & HELPING PEOPLE WITH … ‘Health Care in Action’ and ‘Health Care in Danger’ digital campaigns, aiming to recognize …
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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.
