… She is far from alone. The intensive care unit (ICU) at the main hospital in … The journey to Baidoa from rural areas is dangerous and takes time due to the volatile … influx of people coming in search of food and health care. It places a strain on …
… is essential to avoid devastating health and humanitarian consequences. Joe … country, working to increase access to health care. "One of the first days on this project, … to reduce this as part of our healthcare in danger programme. "Then if you remember the …
… Contador-Kelsall / ICRC Jeremy Trur, the ICRC Health Officer in charge of the First Aid … burns. Unfortunately, during fights, health care is not always accessible whether it be too far or too dangerous to reach. In these situations, first …
… sanitation, waste management, and health care. Space systems also contribute to … of works and installations containing dangerous forces, namely dams, dykes and …
… of equipment on the outer packaging. For dangerous Goods the Seller shall ensure that … water supply, sanitation, school buildings, health clinics, reception centers, etc. 3.3 … prescribed by contracting authorities. Care must be taken in preparing the technical …
… infrastructure like homes, schools and health care facilities have been destroyed. Download … the situation is particularly dire and dangerous. Teams from the Ukrainian Red Cross …
… to access food, water, heating and medical care and many families have lost loved ones or … for the treatment of chronic diseases to 15 healthcare facilities, including 52,000 vials … for humanitarian demining activities to mark dangerous areas and reduce exposure of …
… Army, Royal Medical Services, Ministry of Health, and universities, among others. Our … Judicial guarantees, Mandela rules and health care in detention were among the disseminated … personnel as part of the Health Care in Danger (HCiD initiative and has conducted 2 …
… because of the potential for the release of dangerous methane gas.” The more or less daily … includes food and water but also access to health-care facilities where the sick and injured are …
… from school because we have no one to take care of our mother,” said Fatima, a … and had been receiving cancer treatment at a health centre hundreds of kilometres away. But … months has placed countless more lives in danger. Having already had to leave their …
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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.
