A Community Guide to Environmental Health-Book. Appendix C.
Doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and first-aiders are coming under attack while trying to save lives. They are threatened, arrested or beaten, their hospitals looted or bombed. Some are unable to work because medical supplies can’t get through; some are forced to flee for their lives. Some are e...ven killed.
Attacks on health-care personnel, facilities and vehicles during armed conflict are wrong. They are prohibited under international humanitarian law (also known as the law of war), because they deprive sick and wounded people of much-needed care.
Preventing violence against health care is a matter of life and death.
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Urge una respuesta regional ante una crisis migratoria sin precedentes
Encuesta Nacional de Condiciones de Vida 2016 (ENCOVI 2016)
Ecoanalítica Año 13. Número 08. Semana I Marzo 2018
Metodología de recolección de datos sobre flujo de población venezolana en América del Sur
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) refers to “all procedures involving partial
or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female
genital organs for non-medical reasons.”FGM/C is a violation of girls’ and women’s
human rights and is condemned by many in...ternational treaties and conventions, as
well as by national legislation in many countries.
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