… Mali, like other countries in the Sahel region, is in the grip of an … they realized that it failed to meet World Health Organization standards and was unfit … food, and to cover social security and health care costs, expenses relating to farming and …
… Thousands of Colombians continue to live in the shadow of armed conflict, … Colombia continued to focus on countering the health, economic, and social effects of the … and encounter difficulties in accessing care routes. To stay or to go Confinement and …
… In late February 2016, our president Peter … The most basic things – food, water, shelter, health care – nothing can be taken for granted …
… A man storms into the operating theatre. He is angry and … taken her life, she almost resigned from her career that she considers her destiny. Rita … child, and he wanted revenge. Attacks on health facilities add pressure on the already …
… Since 2014, the Lake Chad crisis has been … to leave for their own safety. Schools, health facilities and humanitarian … no longer move freely, and access to health care, education and markets is disrupted. …
… COVID-19 represents a dramatic threat to life in war-torn countries. The ICRC and its Red … spreading rapidly, countries with weak health systems are likely to be under intense … They usually have little access to medical care, good nutrition, and information on what …
… In Egypt, the International Committee of the … of violence, and migration, and works with healthcare providers to help them enhance their …
… During the first semester of 2024, humanitarian … their access to essential services, (such as health care and water), support their livelihoods or …
… piles of discoloured rags have been discarded in Yemen’s barren desert landscape. But the … from school because we have no one to take care of our mother,” said Fatima, a … and had been receiving cancer treatment at a health centre hundreds of kilometres away. But …
… In collaboration with the Nigerian Red Cross … materials, door and window parts. Six Primary Health Care Centres (PHCC) were rehabilitated and one …
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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.
