The Centre for Global Health at SUSTAINIT, UiO, is emphasizing its attention to healthcare in peace and conflict by a seminar exploring attacks on health care in war and its societal, political, and healthcare consequences with cases from Ukraine and Gaza.
Conflicts that involve assaults on health care infrastructure, have both immediate and long-term consequences. This is more and more evident as conflicts are increasingly taking place in urban settings. Attacks kill or injure vital health care staff, destroy lifesaving facilities, damage critical infrastructure essential to effective function in society, and induce fear in the general population. In the long term, health care is substantially reduced manifesting in epidemics and pandemics.
Attacks on health care in war are not only a violation of international law, but also a systematic destruction of systems, structures and organization impacting all aspects of human life and health. Article 18 of the Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute specifically and categorically prohibit attacks on hospitals. The murder of wounded and sick people is a crime against humanity and a war crime. Despite the long history of protecting health care facilities and personnel, attacks have become more and more common.
- How can the international community act to stop this problem?
- What action can be taken to reduce the suffering caused by these attacks?
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Welcome and introduction of moderator |
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Attacks on health care in war |
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Humanitarian diplomacy and partnership: Norway’s perspective, working for the protection of health care in armed conflicts |
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Russian attacks on healthcare in Ukraine |
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Health care under attack: Are we losing our ability to operate? |
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Urban warfare and the protection of health care services |
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Managing the threat from invisible pathogens during times of war |
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| 13:45 |
Extended Q&A with presenters, moderated by Scott Gates |
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End of program |
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