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PROTECTION OF HEALTH CARE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT CASE STUDIES AND PROPOSED GUIDELINES

Law enforcement agencies and health-care providers coexist, including in emergency situations not related to armed conflict, such as various forms of collective violence. These moments of interaction can be both challenging and collaborative.

MARKING TEN YEARS OF HEALTH CARE IN DANGER IN THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT

This report marks ten years of the Health Care in Danger initiative in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The stories it contains reflect the work that National Society staff and volunteers – acting alone and in partnership – have done over the past decade to protect health-care services from violence and attack, especially in conflict settings.

Ministers of Health Meeting on Protection of Health Care from Violence 23 May 2022 Report

This closed meeting brought together the Ministries of Health of five countries, to share their experience, practices and ideas on protecting health care from violence.

2nd HCiD ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL MEETING Report 21–24 June 2021

High Level Side Event on protection of health care 26 May

Final Report: Organized by the Swiss Confederation, the ICRC, the IFRC and the SHCC, the summit brought together HEALTH MINISTERS from around the world on the eve of the 75th World Health Assembly to take part in a global dialogue on the role of health ministers in protecting health care from violence.

Protecting healthcare: Guidance for the Armed Forces

This document provides practical guidance on the measures armed forces can take to protect health-care workers and to limit the impact of armed conflict on access to, and delivery of, health-care services. It touches on matters relating to training, planning, operational readiness and the conduct of both domestic and extraterritorial military operations

HCiD AFRICA REGIONAL MEETING REPORT 24–25 June 2020

The strategy emphasizes the implementation of concrete measures at the local and national level. In parallel, the Health Care in Danger initiative has transitioned from holding meetings of stakeholders at the global to the regional level. The regional focus allows stakeholders to share experiences on operations and approaches and develop and strengthen local and national partnerships, creating a Community of Concern to prevent and address violence against health care.

Security Survey for Health Facilities

The Security Survey for Health Facilities is a tool to help hospitals and other health-care facilities prepare for attacks against them and improve the safety and security of patients and health workers.

Checklist for a safer COVID-19 response

Who is this checklist for? Managers of health-care services, individual practitioners and health policymakers worried about the impact of violence against health-care workers, facilities and patients during the COVID-19 response.

A matter of life and death : Tackling violence against health care in Pakistan, Peru and El Salvador

Selected experiences

The implementation of rules protecting the provision of health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies: a guidance tool

Available in PDF

Protecting Health Care: Key recommendations

Available in PDF

Meeting the challenges

Available in PDF and hard-copies.

Ambulance and pre-hospital services in risk situations

Available in PDF and hard-copies.

Domestic Normative Frameworks for the Protection of Health Care

Available in PDF and hard-copies.

Safeguarding the provision of Health Care: Operational practices and relevant IHL concerning armed groups

Available in PDF and hard-copies.

Protecting Health Care From Violence - A Global Dialogue For Peer Exchange Of Good Practice - Webinar

Read the report of a joint survey published in July 2022, which highlights the devastating impact of violence and abuse, and identifies good practices implemented to prevent, reduce, or mitigate incidents according to country’s circumstances and health personnel’s perspectives.

It's a matter of life or death - TV Campaign LEBANON

Poster for HCiD: De-escalating violence in healthcare settings

Medical personnel didn’t sign up for this!

Protecting health care in armed conflicts : legal challenges

Voices of the Community of Concern - Cathrine Andersen

Voices of the Community of Concern - Anna-Theresia Ekman, IFMSA

Rules of war (in a nutshell)

Protecting health care together

Video clip

TRAINING MANUAL for Ambulance and Pre-Hospital Response in Risk Situations – A PILOT

Review of the state of ongoing concrete initiatives and ICRC strategy on the protection of health care

TRAINING MANUAL

Massive open online course (MOOC)

Online course free and available to all.

Legal framework

HCiD Network.

How does law protect in war?

Online Casebook

ICRC institutional Health Care in Danger strategy 2020–2022

Protecting health care from violence and attacks in situations of armed conflict and other emergencies

HCID e-Newsletter: November 2016

Available online

HCID Newsletter: July - November 2015

Available in PDF.

Health Care in Danger: Making the case

Available in PDF and in hard copy.

HCID Newsletter: February 2014

Available in PDF.

HCID Newsletter: December 2014

Available in PDF.

Ethical principles of health care in times of armed conflict and other emergencies

Available in PDF.

Gathering Evidence-Based Data on Violence Against Health Care

This report consolidates data from scientific publications on violence against health-care personnel around the globe; and data collected by the ICRC for its protection activities and health programmes. The report showcases different methods for data collection on violence against health-care to promote the analysis of patterns of abuse, understand the circumstances, causes and consequences and devise the appropriate responses.

Violent incidents affecting the delivery of health care, April 2015

Violent incidents affecting the delivery of health care, April 2013