Opening of 'Health Care in Danger: An Issue of our Times' photo exhibition

Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva will open the photo exhibition 'Health care in danger' on Monday 6 October, at 18h30, at the European Parliament's Information Office (Place du Luxembourg, Brussels). Hosted by the European Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the exhibition aims to raise awareness on one of the most serious, yet overlooked violations of international law: the increasing number of attacks on health care worker and facilities.

Background

Violence against the wounded and the sick, against health-care facilities and personnel, is one of the most crucial yet overlooked humanitarian issues of today. In conflicts and upheavals all over the world, violence disrupts health-care services at the moment when they are needed the most. Combatants and civilians die of injuries that they ought to survive because they are prevented from receiving the timely medical assistance to which they have a right.

To raise awareness of this important problem, the European Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross are organising the photo exhibition Health Care in Danger: An Issue of our Times. It will show pairs of rare photographs from very different places and times in history.

The exhibition will last until 17 October. The opening will be attended by members of the European Parliament Development and Foreign Affairs Committees as well as member state representatives, international organizations and humanitarian NGOs.

EbS will be covering the event.

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