… Addis Ababa. While waiting for her prenatal care appointment at the Gunfi primary health care centre, she told us how the … make movements particularly difficult and dangerous. A mother receiving neonatal care in …
… in the past few years have shed light on the danger which have come upon Afghanistan's healthcare system. Doctors, nurses and even patients …
… violence generate immediate and additional health-care requirements for wounded and sick … forms of insecurity. This Health Care in Danger training module was developed by …
… reiterates that civilians, the wounded, health-care workers and facilities, including … and supporters. In these volatile and dangerous circumstances, the International Red …
… SERVICE ON IHL RESPECTING AND PROTECTING HEALTH CARE IN ARMED CONFLICTS AND IN SITUATIONS NOT … 2015, available at https://healthcareindanger.org/wp-content/ …
… obligations for protecting the provision of health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies. … consultation process of the Health Care in Danger project,1 a workshop on domestic …
… Attacks on health-care providers and their patients are frequent … please contact: Irene Raciti, Health Care in Danger campaign coordinator, tel: +41 22 730 …
… civilians no longer have access to essential health services after most of the country's hospitals and health centers were forced to close their … April last year. Repeated attacks on healthcare facilities and personnel have severe …
… in and around hospitals have obliterated the health-care system in northern Gaza, putting … hostilities have damaged hospitals and endangered or harmed staff, patients, and …
… HL Side Event on Protection of Health Care: Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, … ago. This has driven our Health Care in Danger initiative that we have worked on over …
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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.
