… 24-09-2014 Geneva/New York (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are seeking stronger … protect people providing or receiving health care in conflict situations. A high-level …
… Last year, an ICRC team reached Dammaj, a town in northern Yemen, to deliver medical supplies … and facilities so they can save lives. Our Health Care in Danger project seeks better protection …
… Killings and acts of physical violence committed … first aid, they are unable to provide proper care for combat casualties. For fighters and … all the more important as the small number of health-care facilities in the country that …
… How can the international community better protect health care providers and patients in the midst of …
… the Gaza Strip are still deprived of safe drinking water. Repairs to sewage systems and … environment, worsening the risks to public health. This aggravated an already serious … patients to hospitals and other health-care facilities, ambulance services, and …
… of activities carried out by the ICRC in Sri Lanka. Content: Identifiying … needs of families of missing persons Health Care in Danger: ensuring safer access …
… to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed … of IHL. Yet today, violence against health-care personnel, facilities and transports is …
… Violence against the sick, the wounded, health-care …
… The meeting covered grounds and procedures for … of detention, and the provision of medical care – would have to be addressed, and to … to the conflict in so far as the state of health, the spiritual needs and the number of …
… – The African Union (AU) Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross … Ababa on 22 October on the protection of health services in situations of armed … (PRC). In 2012, the ICRC launched the "Health Care in Danger" project that aims at improving …
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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.
