Chatham House Event: Protection of the Wounded and Medical Care-Givers in Armed Conflict: Is the Law Up to the Job?

Protection of the Wounded and Medical Care-Givers in Armed Conflict: Is the Law Up to the Job?
16 May 2019 | 17.30 - 19.00
Chatham House | 10 St James's Square | London | SW1Y 4LE
 
Participants:
Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier, Legal Director, Médecins Sans Frontières
Ezequiel Heffes, Thematic Legal Adviser, Geneva Call
Additional speaker to be confirmed
 
Chair: Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Distinguished Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House
 
This meeting, supported by the British Red Cross, is the first in a series of three to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The meeting will focus on the protection of the wounded and sick in armed conflict and will also include discussion of challenges to the protection of medical care and of health providers.

Attacks on health care personnel and facilities have increased in recent years, as have the instances in which proceedings have been brought against those providing medical care to wounded fighters, including under counter-terrorism measures.

The Geneva Conventions and their Protocols give protection to the wounded and sick and to healthcare providers, but is the law adequate? Is the law sufficiently widely known? How can the law be more fully implemented? What particular challenges arise in non-international armed conflicts?
This event will be followed by a drinks reception.
 
To register interest: https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/protection-wounded-and-medical-care-givers-armed-conflict-law-job