Health Care in Danger: Spotlight on Yemen (webinar)

How Does Law Protect in War? is an online platform that regroups a comprehensive IHL course outline, more than 350 case studies, and various pedagogical resources for professors. This webinar gathered students from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru), Université Laval (Canada), the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Switzerland), and the University of Nairobi (Kenya). The students solved a case study pertaining to challenges to providing health care in armed conflict: the case of Yemen, together with a panel of experts. Questions discussed by the students and panel included the scope of the protection afforded to the wounded and the sick under IHL, protection of medical units and targeting of hospitals.

Panelists:

• Alexander Breitteger, Thematic Legal Advisor, ICRC
• Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier, Legal Director, Médecins sans Frontières
• Ken Hume, DFID Country Representative Haiti, formerly in charge of dialogue with armed forces in the Middle East, ICRC
• Moderated by: Djemila Carron, University of Geneva

Introduction of the case

Question 1 – Protection of the wounded and sick
Question 2 – Control of the al-Razi Hospital by an armed group
Question 3 – Closing of the main road to the al-Razi Hospital
Question 4 – Controlling and removing wounded and sick persons
Question 5 and discussion - Attack against a hospital

See also

• Law and Policy Platform - ICRC's platform for training, research and debate on humanitarian law and action
• Humanitarium - The international forum for exchange and debate on humanitarian law, policy and action
• How Does Law Protect in War? Online version of ICRC’s casebook on IHL (2nd revised and updated edition by Marco Sassòli, Antoine A. Bouvier, Anne Quintin, with the collaboration of Juliane Garcia)