… humanitarian consequences. IHL strikes a careful balance between humanitarian concerns … wounded and the sick must be collected and cared for by the party in whose power they … as well as works and installations containing dangerous forces (such as nuclear power …
… Addressing Violence Against Health Care in Peshawar, a research report compiled … hospitals. The organization’s Health Care in Danger (HCiD) programme is a global initiative …
… and Red Crescent volunteers who operate in dangerous conditions, and to ensure that they … of services including disaster relief and health and social programmes. The IFRC works … of people helped: Relief and recovery Healthcare Water and sanitation 170,046 436,282 …
… of the sick and wounded, those who deliver health-care services, people deprived of their … press, installations and works containing dangerous forces, cultural property and places …
… vehicles under attack While attacks on health-care facilities in different conflict zones … one of the main pillars of the Health Care in Danger (HCID) initiative. Experts took part in …
… Sudan will expand its primary and secondary health-care services (including mental health and … Government of South Sudan Healthcare in Danger International Committee of the Red …
… here in Beni. Everyone is afraid. You're scared of even your brother and your friend … or not," says Euloge, a nurse at a private health centre in Beni. Like Euloge, many … to understand it's an outbreak and that it's dangerous. They've been talking about it on …
… levels of human suffering and brought entire health-care systems to the brink of collapse, just … in close proximity to front lines or other dangers. This report tells the stories of …
… most vulnerable in armed conflict embody the careful balance between military necessity and … ranging from food, water and shelter, to health care and economic opportunities. Today, … States, rife with political and reputational dangers, for example if their support is …
… near populated areas. Rising attacks on health facilities and workers – 54 in the … injured or sick but can’t seek out medical care because nearby clinics have closed and it’s too far, dangerous or expensive to travel to another …
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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.
