… for collecting data on violence against health care. Participants will share challenges and … have limits. As part of the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative, the ICRC seeks to …
… A guidance document in simple language for health personnel, setting out their rights and … explains how responsibilities and rights for health personnel can be derived from … of medical records - "Imported" health care (including military health care) - Data …
… While the protection of health care goes back to the very origins of the … decade. The genesis of the Health Care in Danger Project and Initiative was brought …
… gathered around a common goal – to protect health care. This community is made up of doctors, … experience with us Visit the Health Care in Danger website Sign up to our newsletter and …
… Papua New Guinea The wrecked rooms of a health-care clinic, destroyed in the midst of a … stood abandoned for more than a year, with health-care workers too scared to stay in the …
… mark the launch of The Ethical principles of health care in times of armed conflict and other … code of ethics, already signed by five major health care organizations representing 30 …
… mental, is also essential to ensuring that health facilities function. This was the clear … of Health Facilities" as part of the Health Care in Danger project. The workshops generated a …
… What were the main challenges to providing health care in Mali? The first challenge was … order to protect our hospitals and staff from danger. Next, I went to speak with the various …
… of Operations and the heads of four major health care organizations. Babak Ali Naraghi, Head of the Health Care in Danger project, explaining how the ICRC …
… of cholera. We asked Veronica Kenyi, SSRC health manager, to tell us how her National … in South Sudan affecting the delivery of health care? Health facilities are being looted and …
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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.
