… – the gradual collapse of electricity, water and sanitation services. This report is … one broken pipe can deprive 100,000 people of water. This film shows how the ICRC works with … by Jean-Philippe Dross, Head of the Water and Habitat Unit at the ICRC, who coordinated …
… where access to basic needs such as food, water and medicine are severely limited. … baking facilities, and repairing damage water and sewage systems. The ICRC also runs …
Life behind bars, with limited access to adequate health care, is unbearable. But sometimes it takes as little as a solar panel to make a difference. In Uganda and elsewhere around the world, the …
… peril. People desperately need safety, food, water, medicine, power and shelter. "It's … population, such as food and drinking-water installations. Mr Masson added: "The use …
… adverse impacts (e.g. loss of major natural habitat). Activities that may cause long term … Plan (PMP) and include measures to mitigate water, air, and soil impacts, in accordance … Animal Housing equipment (drinkers, water tank, etc). Sesames crop value chain …
… in the Buzeibiz Bridge area of Baghdad. Food, water and health care are hard to come by. …
… Detainees` conditions improved with access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services … restoration of vital infrastructure, such as water supply systems. Affected communities and … conditions of 5,627 detainees with access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services …
… shortages of medicines and supplies. With water, electricity and even medical staff in … in 2014. Improving access to clean drinking water Making clean drinking water more widely available is one of the …
… key areas: economic security, health, and water and habitat. Since 1935, the ICRC has been working …
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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.
