… 2021. Download the call for entry Every year since 2011, the ICRC has awarded the … photojournalists to address the issue of health care in danger and respect for medical …
… Maintenance of international peace and security: … standards and provides blast trauma care training for health personnel and first responders during …
… The ICRC has been working in Iraq continuously since 1980 to address … It expanded its support to hospitals, primary health centers, physical rehabilitation … Sulaymaniyah, and Dohuk. STRENGTHENING HEALTH CARE SERVICES & HELPING PEOPLE WITH …
… 29-03-2021 The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, … to clean water or electricity. Half of all health facilities are out of service or only … camp provides emergency life-saving surgical care and medical consultations. We also …
… As part of the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative, the ICRC seeks to …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross … to address the issue of violence against health-care workers, health-care facilities, medical …
… 2020, the social and economic crisis in Venezuela continued to take its toll on the … deliver medical supplies, train forensic and healthcare staff, start and continue key …
… Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region erupted over … when they fled their homes. Lack of access to health services and lack of security are other … medical services. Supporting primary health care facilities is now an even greater …
… ICRC to publish a new report today called, “Joining Forces to Combat Protracted Crises: … by an intricate mesh of water, sanitation, health and electricity systems. When these … $2 billion per year globally in health care costs and lost productivity.” Yet a GTFCC …
… was the Spanish flu of 1918, which reportedly infected 500 million people—one-third of the … 2021). It took the lives of many frontline health workers, destroyed economies, and … disinfectant wipes and rubber gloves. Healthcare staff in the above-mentioned places of …
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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.
