ICRC study: Over 41% health workers experienced violence in last 2 months
… Over 41 per cent of health-care workers reported having experienced some … Mirwais Khan, who heads the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative of the ICRC. "We …
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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Operational Update December 2020
… bodies from the battlefield are extremely dangerous because the terrain is littered with … hygiene facilities, clean water Mental health and psychosocial support Damage to … the region, as of early December: HEALTH CARE 15 hospitals and medical facilities …
Cameroon: Humanitarian needs are immense in this neglected crisis
… to leave for their own safety. Schools, health facilities and humanitarian … no longer move freely, and access to health care, education and markets is disrupted. … in situations where humanitarians are in real danger. The ICRC engages in dialogue with all …
Checklist: Domestic Implementation of International Humanitarian Law Prohibiting Sexual Violence
… ensure the provision of access to appropriate care for all victims/survivors without … treatment’; or ‘serious injury to body or health’. See, for example, ICTY, Prlić, Trial … special measures to protect children from the dangers of armed conflict, including sexual …
Ethiopia: Hospitals in Mekelle struggling to care for wounded as medical supplies run out; Red Cross ambulances evacuate the injured
… state capital Mekelle, local hospitals and health facilities are running dangerously low on medical supplies to care for the wounded as well as other mounting …
Ethiopia: A dispatch from West Tigray and North Amhara
… and deliver medicines and supplies to health care facilities and ambulances, which we had … know some hospitals there are already running dangerously low on supplies. …
Islamic Law and International Humanitarian Law: Common principles of the two legal systems
… na visokim državnim pozicijama u Osmanskoj Carevini, odnosno, da su djeca iz Bosne i … for every human being across the globe. A healthy spirit, strong morals and an … to two objectives: firstly, not to endanger the lives of civilians and …
Bangladesh: Emergency nurses go above and beyond duty amid COVID-19
… system, we categorize patients based on their health conditions so that those who need … home. At the outset of the pandemic, we were scared because of the virus spread. But we have … abuse because they are more exposed to the dangers of COVID-19. Low number of nursing …
Midwives of Afghanistan: Mitigating childbirth crisis in the face of danger
… in the past few years have shed light on the danger which have come upon Afghanistan's healthcare system. Doctors, nurses and even patients …
TPNW is a long-awaited tool to ensure that nuclear weapons are eliminated and never used again
… and long-term effects on people, societies, health-care systems and the environment. Answering a … The call was widely shared. Aware of the dangers to global order and the rule of law, …
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