Resources
The following resources from a range of organizations and authors are freely available. Please note that they do not necessarily represent the views of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition. If you would like to suggest a resource not listed here, please contact us.
General
- In the Line of Fire: Protecting Health in Armed Conflict, World Innovation Summit for Health, 2024
- Mobilising the health community to protect health care from attack, The Lancet, 2024
- Critical Condition: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict, 2023
- Karl Blanchet et al. Have Attacks on Health Care Become the New Normal: A Public Health Call to Action for Armed Conflicts Before it is Too Late. Conflict and Health
- Joseph Amon and Leonard Rubenstein, Drone Attacks on Health in 2023: International Humanitarian Law and the Right to Health. Health and Human Rights Journal.
- Leonard Rubenstein, Common Health Podcast, The policy is hand-wringing… Total impunity.
Houssam al-Nahhas, Neema Rukunghu, Uliana Poltavets, “B” Zemen, Paras Shah, Audrey Balliette, and Harrison Blank, The Just Security Podcast, Attacks on Health in Armed Conflict.
Central African Republic (CAR)
- Natalya Kostondova, Jenn O’keeffe, et al. “It’s normal to be afraid”: attacks on healthcare in Ouaka, Haute-Kotto, and Vakaga prefectures of the Central African Republic, 2016–2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
- International Rescue Committee, The impact of violence against health care on the health of children and mothers: A case study in three health zones in eastern DRC
Gaza
- Leonard Rubenstein, Alternative Humanitaires, Threats to international humanitarian law in Ukraine and Gaza
- Human Rights Watch Israel: Palestinian Health Workers Tortured
- Leonard Rubenstein and Stephen Morrison, Facts and Falsehoods: Israel’s Attacks Against Gaza’s Hospitals, Think Global Health.
- Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Medical Ethics and the Detention of Gaza Residents Since the Start of the 2023 War.
- Healthcare Workers Watch, The Killing, Detention and Torture of Healthcare Workers in Gaza
Myanmar
- Rohini Haar et al. I will take part in the revolution with our people”: a qualitative study of healthcare workers’ experiences of violence and resistance after the 2021 Myanmar coup d’etat Conflict and Health.
Ukraine
- Physicians for Human Rights, Health Care in the Dark: The Impacts of Russian Attacks on Energy in Ukraine
- Leonard Rubenstein, Alternative Humanitaires, Threats to international humanitarian law in Ukraine and Gaza
- Uliana Poltavets and Christian De Vos, Russia’s Attacks on Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure Imperil Healthcare Access Just Security
- Physicians for Human Rights, Supporting Survivors of Torture and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine
Sudan
- Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, Widespread damage to healthcare facilities in Khartoum State, Sudan