Guidelines for Investigating Deaths in Custody
These Guidelines, the first of their kind, provide guidance to detaining authorities, investigating authorities, humanitarian agencies and others on preventing deaths in custody. They reflect …
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Protect Health Care: Medical Ethics (poster)
A woman and a baby that survived because health-care workers provided impartial treatment – this is one of the stories told by the new set of five Health Care in Danger posters. Based on real cases, …
Protect Health Care: Spared Hospital (poster)
A patient that survived because a hospital was spared by fighters – this is one of the stories told by the new set of five Health Care in Danger posters. Based on real cases, they show that even in …
Belgrade: Initial response to COVID-19 in April 2020
In response to the unprecedented situation created by the rapid expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic , the ICRC put at disposal its resources to eight Red Cross societies in the region covered by the …
New technologies and warfare, IRRC No. 886
Recent scientific and technical progress has given rise to unprecedented means and methods of warfare. Technologies that only yesterday were in the realm of science fiction have the potential to …
International Humanitarian Law Bibliography, 2013 Edition
A compilation of the four quarterly IHL bibliographies issued by the ICRC Library during 2013. …
Rapid Assessment for Markets: Guidelines for an Initial Emergency Market Assessment
In today’s world, people’s livelihoods depend to a significant extent on markets. Sudden shocks can severely limit how markets function and, as a result, drastically reduce people’s access to …
Belgrade: Response to COVID-19 in May 2020
In response to the unprecedented situation created by the rapid expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic , the ICRC put at disposal its resources to eight Red Cross societies in the region covered by the …
Strengthening International Humanitarian Law Protecting Persons Deprived of their Liberty: Thematic Consultation of Government Experts on Grounds and Procedures for Internment and Detainee Transfers, Montreux, Switzerland, 20-22 October 2014
This report provides an account of the October 2014 thematic consultation of government experts on grounds and procedures for internment and detainee transfers. The consultation was part of the …
Business Skills: Training Course for Beneficiaries of Microeconomic Initiatives
Since 2001, the ICRC has been implementing microeconomic initiatives (MEIs) for vulnerable populations in dozens of countries around the world. The beneficiaries of these programmes typically have …
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