… restrictions are having a dramatic impact on health care," added Mr Maurer. "Health facilities … the fighting makes getting to hospital a dangerous venture. It's a terrible downward …
… Every day brings new challenges and new dangers. CC BY-NC-ND/ICRC/A. Mahyoub Saada … conditions. Homes, hospitals, civilians and health workers have been attacked. Water and … Wounded have the right to receive medical care Rules of war in a nutshell …
… "Health-care workers, facilities and transport must be … or misused," says Erin O'Connor, ICRC health delegate in Gaza. During the 2014 … itself to repair the facility. Health Care in Danger is an ICRC-led project, which aims at …
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… Therefore humanitarian workers, including health-care personnel, often face tremendous risks to … Action (ATHA), the Health Care in Danger project contributed to the panel …
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… How can we protect hospitals, health care workers and patients from attacks? The June Newsletter of the Health Care in Danger project brings you interesting examples …
… of violence, actual and threatened, against health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies? … health-care delivery. Read: Health Care in Danger Newsletter, January-June 2015 …
… The impact of violence on health-care workers was a central topic at the 20th … future generations of doctors, discussed the dangers they may encounter in the future. *** …
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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.
