… a key member of the team delivering surgical care at Gao hospital. After several years with … work is mainly carried out in what can be dangerous conflict zones. But she won't be put … later, in the hospital or elsewhere, in good health and smiling," she explained. "That …
… basic services for detainees, such as food, health care and judicial guarantees. In the midst of … conflicts and violence, which exposes them to danger due to their unfamiliarity with the …
… following key operational areas: Supporting health-care facilities Health care infrastructure … this pandemic. As part of the Health Care in Danger Initiative (HCiD), we have been: …
… display it as they do their work, in serious danger. In recent years the ICRC has been … law. In addition, in connection with its "Health Care in Danger" campaign, it has organized a …
… life-saving surgery alongside local health-care workers. The ICRC has also been providing … other core health-care services in extremely dangerous circumstances in Gaza since the …
… and illtreatment, to ensure their adequate care. GC IV, Arts.14; 15 Parties to a conflict … must enjoy general protection against dangers arising from military operations. AP … acts are prohibited: violence to the life, health, or physical or mental well-being of …
… 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 …
… for people with disabilities, and our work in Health Care in Danger. In conversation with Rafia Qaseem Baig …
… with barrier gestures, as well as helping health facilities and prisons to introduce … become a disease spreader. We must also take care not to place our staff at risk." … each household, after it was primed about the dangers of the disease and instructed in …
… the birth of Florence Nightingale. The World Health Assembly has designated 2020 as the … who are often the first and only point of care in their communities. On this occasion, … medal is also related to Health Care in Danger (HCID), an initiative of the …
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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.
