Violence against patients and health-care workers is one of the most crucial yet overlooked humanitarian issues today. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement runs a global campaign aiming to improve security and delivery of impartial and efficient health care in armed conflict and other emergencies.

About the speakers

Arjan Hehenkamp (General Director at Médecins sans Frontières), Romain Clercq-Rogues (ICRC Delegation Paris) and Brigit Toebes (Rosalind Franklin Fellow) will share their thoughts and own experience regarding healthcare in danger. Following their presentations, the experts will take place in a panel and openly discuss the most difficult issues of the debate: How to stop violence against and win more respect for healthcare workers? What is the proper modus operandi with regard to humanitarian access and action? And at what point are humanitarian organizations forced to leave?