Violence against health care II

Patients and health-care personnel alike face extraordinary risks in today's armed conflicts and other emergencies. Part II of this thematic issue focuses on the legal, operational or policy measures that can be taken to improve access to medical care in volatile contexts. Part I focused on patterns of attacks against health care, based on results from health-related data collection and field studies.

Violence against health care II

IRRC No. 890 August 2013 Violence against health care II

Table of contents

Reflections on the Colombian case law on the protection of medical personnel against punishment author: Ekaterina Ortiz Linares, Marisela Silva Chau

The Vukovar Hospital case from the perspective of a national investigative judge author: Miroslav Alimpic

The relevance of the Fundamental Principles to operations: learning from Lebanon author: Sorcha O’Callaghan, Leslie Leach

Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality: the case of Médecins Sans Frontières author: Dr Caroline Abu Sa’Da, Dr Françoise Duroch, Dr Bertrand Taithe

In conversation with Pierre Gentile, Head of Project ‘Health Care in Danger’, ICRC Directorate of Operations. author: Pierre Gentile

A way forward in protecting health services in conflict: moving beyond the humanitarian paradigm author: Leonard S. Rubenstein

The law regulating cross-border relief operations author: Emanuela-Chiara Gillard

From face-to-face to face-to-screen: remote management, effectiveness and accountability of humanitarian action in insecure environments author: Antonio Donini, Daniel Maxwell

The Occupied Palestinian Territory and international humanitarian law: a response to Peter Maurer author: Shawan Jabarin

What’s new in law and case law? (Summer 2013) author:

New publications in humanitarian action and the law author:

Book review: The terror courts: rough justice at Guantanamo Bay author: Diane Marie Amann

Violence against health care II

IRRC No. 890 August 2013 Violence against health care II

Table of contents

Reflections on the Colombian case law on the protection of medical personnel against punishment author: Ekaterina Ortiz Linares, Marisela Silva Chau

The Vukovar Hospital case from the perspective of a national investigative judge author: Miroslav Alimpic

The relevance of the Fundamental Principles to operations: learning from Lebanon author: Sorcha O’Callaghan, Leslie Leach

Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality: the case of Médecins Sans Frontières author: Dr Caroline Abu Sa’Da, Dr Françoise Duroch, Dr Bertrand Taithe

In conversation with Pierre Gentile, Head of Project ‘Health Care in Danger’, ICRC Directorate of Operations. author: Pierre Gentile

A way forward in protecting health services in conflict: moving beyond the humanitarian paradigm author: Leonard S. Rubenstein

The law regulating cross-border relief operations author: Emanuela-Chiara Gillard

From face-to-face to face-to-screen: remote management, effectiveness and accountability of humanitarian action in insecure environments author: Antonio Donini, Daniel Maxwell

The Occupied Palestinian Territory and international humanitarian law: a response to Peter Maurer author: Shawan Jabarin

What’s new in law and case law? (Summer 2013) author:

New publications in humanitarian action and the law author:

Book review: The terror courts: rough justice at Guantanamo Bay author: Diane Marie Amann

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