About the author(s):
Katharine Fortin is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches IHL and IHRL. Before joining Utrecht University, she worked at the ICTY, ICC and Norton Rose Fulbright. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Lieber Prize. She has written widely about the framework of law that applies to armed groups in non-international armed conflicts and is one of the editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog.
Part II of the thematic IRRC issue on Violence against Health Care is now available in a pdf document on the ICRC website. The second part of the issue focuses on the legal, operational or policy measures that can be taken to improve access to medical care in volatile contexts (see here for the first part).
The table of contents for part two are found below:
VIOLENCE AGAINST HEALTH CARE II: THE WAY FORWARD
Addressing violations of health care delivery
Reflections on the Colombian case law on the protection of medical personnel against punishment
Ekaterina Ortiz Linares and Marisela Silva Chau
The Vukovar Hospital case from the perspective of a national investigative judge
Miroslav Alimpic´
Dilemmas in the field: providing health care in conflict zones
The relevance of the Fundamental Principles to operations: learning from Lebanon
Sorcha O’Callaghan and Leslie Leach
Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality:the case of Médecins Sans Frontières
Caroline Abu Sa‘Da, Françoise Duroch and Bertrand Taithe
The way forward
Opinion Note: A way forward in protecting health services in conflict: moving beyond the humanitarian paradigm
Leonard S. Rubenstein
Q&A: ‘Health Care in Danger’: In conversation with Pierre Gentile
Selected articles on IHL and humanitarian action
The law regulating cross-border relief operations
Emanuela-Chiara Gillard
From face-to-face to face-to-screen: remote management, effectiveness and accountability of humanitarian action in insecure environments
Antonio Donini and Daniel Maxwell
The Occupied Palestinian Territory and international humanitarian law: a response to Peter Maurer
Shawan Jabarin
Reports and documents
What’s new in law and case law around the world?
Biannual update on national implementation of international humanitarian law related treaties July – December 2012
Books and articles
New publications in humanitarian action and the law
This selection is based on the new acquisitions of the ICRC Library and Public Archives
The terror courts: rough justice at Guantanamo Bay
Jess Bravin
Book review by Diane Marie Amann