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… numbers of deceased patients? If so, the Health Care in Danger project's new e-learning module on the …
… National Societies to ensure safe access to health care in their countries. Frederik Siem, HCiD … Mr Grau adds. Read: Health Care in Danger Newsletter, January-June 2015 …
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… the armed conflict in Sudan, the country's health system is on the brink of collapse. Health facilities have been attacked or looted, … of Sudanese people, accessing medical care now means traveling long distances - often …
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… that we had medical emergencies to take care of." CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Asim Rafiqui / … / ICRC / Asim Rafiqui / NOOR Attacks against health-care workers, hospitals and ambulances … of Pakistan. The ICRC's Health Care in Danger (HCiD) project aims at encouraging …
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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.
