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Twelve issues: What States can do to improve respect for IHL in 2022

… of essential services, such as electricity, health, education, water and sanitation. This … might have a significant impact on public health, as electricity is needed to operate … (water, electricity, sanitation and health care) and contamination by unexploded ordnance. …

Law and policy topic

Changing world, unchanged protection? 70 years of the Geneva Conventions

… The wounded and sick must be given medical care; Hospitals and medical personnel must not … deep needs: from food, water and shelter, to health care services and economic opportunities and …

Statement

Humanitarian challenges 2017: ICRC Colombia Report

… of war. This type of hazard is a latent danger in urban and rural areas where the … individuals 1,500 people had access to health services, including 810 wounded and … injured had access to health services and care protocols. All these situations served to …

Publication

2019 ICRC report on IHL and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts

… sanitation and electricity, and deprived of health care; such privation is aggravated when cities … in firefights and call for fire support. The danger and urgency of such situations …

Law and policy topic

Unnumbered ICRC Circulars 1952-1954: “Replies of the International Committee of the Red Cross to requests for information on the Geneva Conventions and cognate questions”

While the ICRC was working on the publication of the first Commentaries to the newly adopted Geneva Conventions of 1949, it sent National Societies and Governments five "Information Notes", entitled …

Article

The Kampala Convention: Key Recommendations Ten Years On

… etc.) and access essential services (medical care, education, etc.). For other actors … shelter and essential services, such as health care and education. While doing so, they … a normal life, thereby exposing them to danger. Ultimately, achieving a durable …

Law and policy topic

The ICRC: Frequently asked questions about our work

… cannot be set aside. They require comfort, care, assistance, and protection—just as …

Law and policy topic
ICRC Emblem on boat

Our work in Armenia in 2018

… business activities because of their age, health condition or other circumstances. We … community awareness on safe behavior and danger of mines and unexploded devices, and … the ICRC and the German Red Cross. Health Care medical staff of three hospitals in Tavush …

Law and policy topic

Reaffirming the importance of integrated protection of civilians

… and placing them in the cross-hairs of danger when things go wrong. She cited recent … the rise of new actors and the attacks on health care personnel and medical facilities have …

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Reducing Suffering During Armed Conflict: The Interface Between Buddhism and IHL

… that might ultimately reduce suffering? D. Care for injured, protectorless and distressed … for hospitals and other medical facilities. Care for wounded and surrendered enemy soldiers. Protection of and care for threatened civilians, the displaced …

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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.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.