… Even in today's ongoing COVID-19 pandemic , health-care facilities have been targeted by … are disrupted, people's lives are put in danger. During health crises or in times of …
… for generations and there is the very real danger that cities experiencing these … fleeing. Essential urban services like water, health care, electricity and schools are damaged, …
… from school because we have no one to take care of our mother,” said Fatima, a … and had been receiving cancer treatment at a health centre hundreds of kilometres away. But … months has placed countless more lives in danger. Having already had to leave their …
… spreading rapidly, countries with weak health systems are likely to be under intense … of already vulnerable people in even greater danger. Our appeal for 254 million Swiss … They usually have little access to medical care, good nutrition, and information on what …
… sustained material damage. Because of the dangers of the in-close fighting, doctors and … arrived at the hospital in need of medical care. Given the generalized sense of … the fighting are also left with minimal health services. Kodok Hospital normally …
… taken her life, she almost resigned from her career that she considers her destiny. Rita … child, and he wanted revenge. Attacks on health facilities add pressure on the already … killed the patient," she says. This kind of danger is a brutal reality for health workers …
… Oromia and Tigray. In 2024, assisting health facilities that treated individuals … during emergency responses and addressing the dangers posed by unexploded ordnance were also … 756,900 persons provided with curative care and free hospital services. 7,500 …
… Contador-Kelsall / ICRC Jeremy Trur, the ICRC Health Officer in charge of the First Aid … burns. Unfortunately, during fights, health care is not always accessible whether it be too far or too dangerous to reach. In these situations, first …
… good safety systems in place. "If there is danger then we go in the safe room and then we … we going to be able to provide the medical care needed?" she said. "But I still go. I …
… The access to essential needs such as basic health care is also dangerously limited in several areas across …
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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.
