… Hostilities Unit at the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross … irreversible effects of nuclear weapons on health, the environment, the climate and food … as electricity, water, sanitation and health care. Lack of essential services typically …
… Despite the long-term desire of the international community to explore and use … example, civilian infrastructure needed for health care, transportation, communications, energy …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross … use tools – including AI-DSS. Indeed, the careful use of AI-based systems may facilitate … humanitarian considerations related to age, health, and other individual circumstances – …
… two weeks, from 18 April to 1 May 2018, the International Committee of the Red Cross … across Belgium a short film on the risks to health-care. The video projection is part of the …
… – A public awareness campaign on respecting ambulances' right of way, entitled … launched in Karachi in 2016 as part of the Health Care in Danger project. A marked improvement …
… Health Care in Danger newsletter - March 2016 Hospitals …
… more than 240 attacks on medical facilities, in violation of humanitarian laws. These … attacks erode an already extremely fragile health system: They have damaged or destroyed … and many patients have been afraid to seek care. Children are among those paying the …
… The Security Survey for Health Facilities is a new tool to help hospitals and other health-care facilities prepare for attacks against them and improve the safety and security …
… People go missing in Africa during armed conflicts, other … missing person, economic situation, mental health and psychosocial issues, legal and … parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, …
… and access to food and nutritious diets, both in the short and medium-term, for targeted … reports on the environmental, social, health and safety (ESHS) performance of the … receiving displaced persons) will be carefully planned and implemented. This Parent …
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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.
