… for vulnerable migrants and their families in the Americas. It explains our approach and … points also alert local authorities and health facilities to the migrants’ ordeals, … People are seeking job opportunities, health care and education for their children, and to …
… Advancing into 2024, we are thrilled to present a … conflict. By orchestrating a series of mental health and psychosocial support sessions, … Centers (CRC). • 1 workshop on various healthcare in detention themes was conducted for 35 …
… Port-au-Prince (ICRC) – A sharp increase in the number … urgent needs and enhance people`s access to healthcare and other humanitarian services. Some …
… Civilian areas have not been spared the fighting. All sides have suffered. CC … conditions. Homes, hospitals, civilians and health workers have been attacked. Water and … Wounded have the right to receive medical care Rules of war in a nutshell …
… after the violence ended, the once burgeoning city of Mosul still bears the scars of the … be done, particularly in terms of homes and health care. The situation is bleak and it is a …
… Facts & Figures The ICRC has been present in Ethiopia since the beginning of the 1977 … supplies and emergency kits to 20 primary health care units and 13 hospitals Distributed …
… In 2016, the ICRC continued to help thousands … and the ICRC facilitated a round table on health in detention with the prison … NS Roundtable on Safer Access and Health Care in Danger. ICRC further supported 3 KRCS …
… Imagine for a moment that every time you leave … from their homes, the deterioration in mental health, and the lack of access to essential public services like health care and schooling. Invisible effects of armed …
… Present in Iraq since the Iraq-Iran war in 1980, the … exchanged in favour of visited detainees. Healthcare in Detention • 47,000 detainees gained …
… rocked central Myanmar on March 28, buckling roads in the capital Naypyidaw, damaging … us." The ICRC is enabling access to medical care by affected people through our support to health centres and the MRCS mobile clinic. Our …
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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.
