Red Cross Red Crescent magazine: Bright ideas
As humanitarians explore new technologies and innovation, how do they make sure these developments empower the people who need them most? A pilot project in two informal settlements in Kenya and …
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Defusing Violent Behaviour in Health-Care Settings
This poster is meant for all healthcare staff and is to be displayed in healthcare settings. It visually compiles helpful attitudes, reactions, and behaviors health-care staff should observe to …
Microeconomic Initiatives: Handbook
This handbook is the result of lessons learned by the ICRC from implementing microeconomic initiatives (MEIs) in various countries. An MEI is an income-generating programme that takes a bottom-up …
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction
This booklet contains the text of the "Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction" adopted on 18 September 1997 by …
The Montreux Document on Private Military and Security Companies
The Montreux Document is the result of an international process launched by the Government of Switzerland and the ICRC. It is an intergovernmental document intended to promote respect for …
Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law
After six years of expert discussions and research, the ICRC has published the "Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law", which …
Business and IHL: An introduction to the rights and obligations of business enterprises under international humanitarian law
The globilization of market economies offers new opportunities for business enterprises and they also give rise to risks. As business enterprises explore these opportunities, they are increasingly …
Primary Health-Care Services: Primary Level
In health emergencies as in periods of stability, restoring access to primary health-care services is a priority in so far as many problems can be dealt with by means of preventive care and …
Professional Standards for Protection Work
Professional Standards for Protection Work (third edition) constitutes a set of minimum but essential standards aimed at ensuring that protection work carried out by human rights and humanitarian …
Missing People, DNA Analysis and Identification of Human Remains: A Guide to Best Practice in Armed Conflicts and Other Situations of Armed Violence
The manual offers practical guidance to practitioners involved in the identification of the missing and who are using or planning to use forensic DNA analysis for this purpose. DNA (Deoxyribonucleic …
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