Irish Red Cross, EU and ICRC: #NotATarget campaign
… across Ireland, a short film on the risks to health-care #NotATarget, from 14 September to 18 … film screening is part of the 'Health Care in Danger' campaign, aimed at raising awareness …
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What is the humanitarian impact of the COVID-19 pandemic?
… threats are already overlapping with existing health and economic crises." The past months … Mozambique are trading this life-threatening danger for the risk of COVID-19. The new … the ICRC most is the weak state of health care structures [in areas affected by …
Newsletter - September 2020: Weakened by conflict, health systems in the Middle East struggle to cope with COVID-19
… pandemic has further destabilized public health systems already weakened by war and … COVID-19 Hospitals in Gaza are striving to care for COVID19 patients with only four hours … basic food items. [EN, AR] HEALTH CARE IN DANGER Health staff across Iraq are working …
Egypt: Facts and Figures Jan - Dec 2019
… humanitarian law (IHL), and cooperates with healthcare providers to help them boost their … and EAO attended the regional health care in danger meeting held in April 2019 in Beirut. …
World Food Day: Rising food prices, job losses, and unabated conflict spark fears of rising hunger in communities across Africa
… malnutrition. "The level of hunger is rising dangerously due to violence, lack of access to … Red Crescent societies and local clinics and health care facilities to treat moderate and severe …
Disarmament efforts essential to address humanitarian concerns of weapons technologies
… operations, parties must take constant care to spare the civilian population, … widely. A few months later, aware of the dangers posed by these weapons to global order … in the water and electricity supply, health care and other services essential to …
TPNW is a long-awaited tool to ensure that nuclear weapons are eliminated and never used again
… and long-term effects on people, societies, health-care systems and the environment. Answering a … The call was widely shared. Aware of the dangers to global order and the rule of law, …
Midwives of Afghanistan: Mitigating childbirth crisis in the face of danger
… in the past few years have shed light on the danger which have come upon Afghanistan's healthcare system. Doctors, nurses and even patients …
Bangladesh: Emergency nurses go above and beyond duty amid COVID-19
… system, we categorize patients based on their health conditions so that those who need … home. At the outset of the pandemic, we were scared because of the virus spread. But we have … abuse because they are more exposed to the dangers of COVID-19. Low number of nursing …
Islamic Law and International Humanitarian Law: Common principles of the two legal systems
… na visokim državnim pozicijama u Osmanskoj Carevini, odnosno, da su djeca iz Bosne i … for every human being across the globe. A healthy spirit, strong morals and an … to two objectives: firstly, not to endanger the lives of civilians and …
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