Resources
Organizations that monitor compliance with international obligations, produce reports and guidance to governments, militaries, and non-state armed groups, and seek policy changes enhance protection of and respect for health care in conflict.
The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition promote the security of health workers and services threatened by war or civil unrest. It monitors attacks on and threats to civilian health; strengthens universal norms of respect for the right to health; demands accountability for perpetrators; and empowers providers and civil society groups to be champions for their right to health.
Health Care in Danger initiative of the International Red Cross an initiative and Red Crescent Movement aimed at addressing the issue of violence against patients, health workers, facilities and vehicles, and ensuring safe access to and delivery of health care in armed conflict and other emergencies.
Stopping Attacks on Health Care, an initiative of the World Health Organization, aims to ensure that health workers everywhere are able to provide health care in a safe and protected environment without disruption from acts of violence. The initiative has three main pillars of work including the systematic collection of evidence of attacks, advocacy for the end of such attacks, and the promotion of good practices for protecting health care from attacks.