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In conversation with the members of the National Permanent Roundtable for the Respect of the Medical Mission in Colombia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2014

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Abstract

The Colombian National Permanent Roundtable for the Respect of the Medical Mission (hereinafter ‘the Roundtable’) is a platform launched in 2008 on the initiative of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the Emergency Control Centre of the Ministry of Health of Cundinamarca with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Colombian Red Cross. It provides a space for discussion on topics related to the protection and safeguarding of health services, in the context of the non-international armed conflict taking place in Colombia. The permanent members of the Roundtable include a representative of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, a representative of the Presidential Programme for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, the Colombian Red Cross and the ICRC. In this interview, the members of the Roundtable give their perspectives on the motives that inspire its work and the main challenges that it faces for the protection of the medical mission in Colombia.1

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 95 , Issue 889: Violence against health care Part I: The problem and the law , March 2013 , pp. 73 - 82
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Copyright © icrc 2014 

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References

1 This interview was conducted by Marisela Silva Chau, coordinator of the Legal Department at the ICRC Delegation in Colombia, and Ekaterina Ortiz Linares, former legal adviser at the ICRC Delegation in Colombia and current ICRC field delegate.

2 31st International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, November 2011, Geneva, Switzerland.

3 Manual de Misión Médica, Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Bogotá, February 2013, available (in Spanish) at: www.minsalud.gov.co/Documentos%20y%20Publicaciones/Manual%20de%20Misi%C3%B3n%20M%C3%A9dica.pdf (last visited January 2014).

4 Ibid., pp. 13 and 18.