Search results

644 results found

Somalia: Working together for humanity

… Services Department in the Ministry of Health. During this twin assignment l had the … we have 44 mother and child health-care centres in south and central Somalia. Our … situations in all the regions. What danger does the nature of the prevailing …

Article

Somalia: Life-saving assistance to people affected by the drought

… daughter as she sleeps at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Kismayo General Hospital … therapeutic milk, he has been regaining his health. Despite the good progress, Arbay Ahmed, … The children in this phase are well out of danger and will be discharged soon. …

ICRC Activities in Iraq: Annual Report 2020

… expanded its support to hospitals, primary health centers, physical rehabilitation … and Dohuk. STRENGTHENING HEALTH CARE SERVICES & HELPING PEOPLE WITH … ‘Health Care in Action’ and ‘Health Care in Danger’ digital campaigns, aiming to recognize …

Law and policy topic

Ethiopia: A dispatch from West Tigray and North Amhara

… and deliver medicines and supplies to health care facilities and ambulances, which we had … of injured people in recent weeks to health care facilities. We provided some first …

Law and policy topic

Armed violence and the new urban agenda: Recommendations for Habitat III

… water, sewerage, waste disposal and health care are more dependent than ever on complex … training and other means. THE HEALTH CARE IN DANGER PROJECT Health Care in Danger is an …

Law and policy topic

South Sudan: Midwife’s heroic actions save mom and newborn twins

… When Grace* arrived at the Maiwut Primary Health Care Centre in South Sudan's northeast region … healthy, and indeed grateful to Maiwut health center and Annet. In a country where …

Article

Ethical decisions - good but not always easy to make

… Similarly, when cooperating with local health-care systems or treating local populations, the … medical ethics. Read: Health Care in Danger newsletter, July – November 2015 …

Article

Calls to action from the ICRC to Colombia in 2022

… to prioritize in their political agendas the care and protection of victims and communities … and impede access to basic services, such as health care and education. Sexual violence is … that must not be forgotten. Health care in danger. Prisons, migration and use of force. …

Law and policy topic

Tunisia: Libyan surgeons improve skills in war surgery

… The ICRC has provided supplies for over 20 health-care facilities in the country since July. … According to Carmen Carrillo, the ICRC's health coordinator in Libya, "those attending …

News release

Exceptional Florence Nightingale Medal awarded to nurses, midwives in captivity

… staff who put themselves on the line to care for others while working in the most … of the Nurse and the Midwife by the World Health Assembly in Nightingale's honor. This … healthcare and those who put themselves in danger to help others." The Florence …

News release

Didn’t find what you were looking for?

Try one of the following resources:

ICRC library

Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.