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A patient cannot be an enemy. The sick and the injured are not combatants.

May 21, 2013 by Peter Maurer

Op-ed - Medical Care In The Line Of Fire

This op-ed by Dr. Unni Karunakara, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and ICRC President Peter Maurer was orginally published by Al Jazeera.

Medical care benefits everyone - combatant and non-combatant - and anyone in need should be able to access it.

Healthcare In Danger

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May 15, 2013 by Simon Schorno

Setting Standards For Humanitarian, Human Rights Protection Work

When we launched the revised Professional Standards for Protection Work last week at CSIS

Law & Policy, Protection, Humanitarian Action

May 20, 2013 by Simon Schorno

Mali, fragile after 16 months of armed conflict

After nearly 16 months of armed conflict, security remains fragile in northern Mali and large parts of the Sahel.

From The Field, Operations, Mali, Africa

May 14, 2013 by Simon Schorno

ICRC Photojournalism Award - Call For Entries

Our colleagues at ICRC Paris, in collaboration with Visa Pour L'Image, are calling on photojournalists to submit their work for the ICRC's third Visa d'Or Humanitaire.

Healthcare In Danger, Operations, Decisive Moments, Photojournalism

MSF on the politics of humanitarian action

As research director at MSF's CRASH, Paris-based Michael Neuman recently co-edited Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed. In this honest and important book, various MSF contributors analyse the realities of humanitarian action and the kind of compromises their organization has accepted to assist countless victims of armed conflict during its 40-year history.

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