Violence against patients and health-care workers is one of the most crucial yet overlooked humanitarian issues of today. Read more about the ICRC's worldwide Health Care in Danger project

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Libya: health care in danger - insights

This unique footage was honoured by the Webby Awards in April 2012. Shot in Libya in 2011 by independent photojournalist André Liohn, it starkly reveals the dangers that health-care workers face as they treat casualties close to the front line.

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  • People suffer and die because they don't get health care.
  • It's against the law.
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