… transportation, food and agriculture, health care, financial services, disaster prevention … of works and installations containing dangerous forces, such as nuclear power plants …
… support for water, sanitation, and health-related activities. • • Over 2,400 … humanitarian law. Similarly, healthcare personnel, medico-legal staff, first … to the effects of violence, including the dangers of weapon contamination, and climate …
… of war. This type of hazard is a latent danger in urban and rural areas where the … the country experienced in mid-2016, health institutions in Cauca, Boyacá and … injured had access to health services and care protocols. All these situations served to …
… technologies in warfare; and the existential danger that nuclear weapons pose to humanity … their survival – such as water, electricity, health care or waste management – are disrupted. …
… operations, parties must take constant care to spare the civilian population, … widely. A few months later, aware of the dangers posed by these weapons to global order … in the water and electricity supply, health care and other services essential to …
… be done among authorities responsible for the care of, prisoners of war and civilian … to sexual and gender-based violence21 and health care in danger22 – stressed the particular importance …
… Delegado-Geral de Polícia) SES State Health Secretariat SDH Human Rights … raising awareness for everyone, of the great danger that surrounds all families. B. Reduce … material assistance to family members being cared for). 33 BRAZILIAN CONTEXT 5.9 PRESS AND …
… delivery systems like water distribution, health, shelter or education – for example in … developments: The Conventions are based on a careful balance between military necessity and … as healthcare and schooling because it is dangerous to go out in the street, Or when …
… issue: Paying it forward a step at a time Health support in Mindanao Helping people … improve the access to physical rehabilitation care. Currently, a dormitory is being … killed. They constantly face uncertainty and danger. The ICRC’s exclusive humanitarian …
… bus driver a couple of times about the girl´s health, but both times he ignored her and the … interior of the country, far away from the danger and threats of city life. Here, in a … her family received support and mental health care from the ICRC. "Psychosocial support has …
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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.
