{"id":13143,"date":"2024-07-16T16:25:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T08:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmel.hku.hk\/events\/international-humanitarian-law-and-the-immunity-of-hospitals-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:32:29","slug":"international-humanitarian-law-and-the-immunity-of-hospitals-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/cmel.hku.hk\/zh\/events\/international-humanitarian-law-and-the-immunity-of-hospitals-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"International Humanitarian Law and The Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Video recording (click<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #009949;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a style=\"color: #009949;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yicbCYT7_cs\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to watch on YouTube)<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yicbCYT7_cs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>\ufeff<\/iframe><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Abstract:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>International Humanitarian Law (IHL), specifically Article 18 of the IV Geneva Convention, affords special protection to civilian hospitals. This special protection is waived, however, under certain circumstances specified in Article 19. Such conditions to waive the special protection of hospitals are now being used by Israel to justify the attack on civilian hospitals and healthcare institutions in Gaza. This paper critically evaluates Article 19 and the conditions for the removal of the immunity of hospitals in general and in the specific case of Gaza. The substance and language of Article 19 are found to be flawed in this case. The paper thus argues that Article 19 should be revised to better reflect the special protection hospitals generally and in Gaza specifically should have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">About the Speaker:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><strong>Dr Zohar Lederman<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Clinical Practitioner, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine<br \/>\nResearch Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law<br \/>\nHKU<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr Lederman is Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, as well as Clinical Practitioner at the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. He started his medical career as a volunteer emergency medical technician in Israel. He then finished medical school in Italy, internships in both Italy and Israel, and an emergency medicine residency at a level 1 trauma centre in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>He is passionate about the science and ethics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, social medicine and the ethics of emergency medicine in general. An avid educator with lots of experience in writing and conducting clinical simulations for medical students and residents, Dr Lederman brings his expertise and dedication to the University of Hong Kong&#8217;s Department of Emergency Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to our centre<\/strong>:<br \/>\nTo stay connected, please subscribe to us by filling out\u00a0<a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdGfztJ35EYtfY2Q3fBOyQFhJ6r0aJJuvURKDZdWzrYT1XfCg\/viewform\">this form<\/a>.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12865,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Video recording (click<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #009949;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a style=\"color: #009949;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/e5TN6HJEwy4\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to watch on YouTube)\r\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e5TN6HJEwy4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>\ufeff<\/iframe><\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Abstract:\r\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Challenge Trials \u2013 a type of research study where people give consent to being exposed to a serious infectious disease so that researchers can better understand that disease \u2013 have actually been taking place for decades. And in their current form, they are not particularly controversial. They have been used to learn better ways to treat and prevent major diseases that still kill millions of people, such as malaria, cholera and influenza (the flu). This presentation will discuss the ethical and regulatory principles behind challenge trials, including the issues relating to conducting a \u201criskier\u201d type of challenge trial that came up during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><strong><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">About the Speaker:\r\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><strong>Prof Jerry Menikoff,<\/strong> Professor, Centre for Biomedical Ethics Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore<\/span><\/p>\r\n<span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Before joining the faculty of the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics as a Professor of Bioethics, and becoming a senior fellow of the Faculty of Law in 2023, Jerry Menikoff was for 14 years the director of the main U.S. regulatory agency protecting research subjects in federally funded research (OHRP). He oversaw the multi-year process of successfully revising the \"Common Rule\", with many of the changes reflecting proposals he promoted for years (particularly improving consent forms, making consent forms public, and requiring a single IRB for review of multi-centered research). He also played a lead role in creating the debate over determining the risk level in comparative effectiveness research (most notably, relating to issues raised in the SUPPORT trial of oxygen supplementation in premature infants). Prior to this, he was in charge of the intramural research protections program at the National Institutes of Health. He has been a faculty member of medical or law schools at the University of Kansas and the University of Chicago, among other schools. He is the author of the textbook <\/span><em><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Law and Bioethics: An Introduction<\/span><\/em><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> (Georgetown University Press) and of<\/span><em><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> What the Doctor Didn\u2019t Say: The Hidden Truth about Medical Research<\/span><\/em><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> (Oxford University Press).<\/span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Co-organisers:\r\n<\/strong><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/cmel.hku.hk\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, HKU<\/a>\r\n<a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/emed.med.hku.hk\/\">Department of Emergency Medicine, HKUMed<\/a>\r\n<a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/mehu.hku.hk\/\">Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, HKUMed<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Subscribe to our centre<\/strong>:\r\nTo stay connected, please subscribe to us by filling out\u00a0<a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdGfztJ35EYtfY2Q3fBOyQFhJ6r0aJJuvURKDZdWzrYT1XfCg\/viewform\">this form<\/a>.","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false},"events_types":[266],"events_feature":[126],"events_year":[739],"class_list":["post-13143","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","events_types-seminars-zh","events_feature-other-events-zh","events_year-2024-zh-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - 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