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 Home > Info resources > EventsSection Calendar of main events This section contains an agenda of events related to the ICRC’s mandate and international humanitarian law. A list of current and upcoming events that examine different aspects of international humanitarian law or that are related to the ICRC's present campaigns. Also includes courses organised by the ICRC or in which the ICRC is participating.  Forthcoming and current eventsCluster munitions conferences Bangkok, Cairo, Dublin, Geneva, Livingstone (Zambia), Mexico City, Wellington (New Zealand) ; February - July 2008 Training courses26th course on international humanitarian law Warsaw, Poland, 30 June to 10 July 2008 Open to students and lecturers trained in public international law and to professionals dealing with IHL-related situations. Includes lectures on the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional Protocols, and case studies exploring the application of IHL to contemporary armed conflict.International Humanitarian Law Summer Course University of Ottawa, Canada, 1 - 6 June 2008 The goal of this course is to offer a course to teach students and professionals the fundamentals of IHL and the opportunity to apply this knowledge through hypothetical, yet realistic, case studies. The organizers welcome applications from students, academics, government, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, the media and international business.ICRC international war surgery seminar, 2008 - programme The ICRC is holding its 19th Surgical Seminar in Geneva from Friday 28 March to Sunday 30 March 2008 Surgeons and other surgery professionals from around the world are taking part in the event, whose presenters include ICRC specialists on the treatment and management of war-wounded.Water and sanitation engineering University of Neuchâtel , Switzerland, 8 - 15 March 2008 The Centre of Hydrogeology of the University of Neuchâtel (CHYN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC - Wathab Service), with the privileged participation of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), propose the course on water and sanitation engineering with the aim to enable the participants to acquire the basic technical skills required to conduct their activities as water and sanitation engineers (Watsan).Doctors working in prison: human rights and ethical dilemmas  Online course
Many of those held in prisons around the world do not receive adequate medical care. To improve their access to quality health services, the ICRC has participated in a World Medical Association project to produce an internet-based course for doctors working in prisons.Past eventsInternational humanitarian law (IHL) competition in the Netherlands The Hague, Netherlands, 28 - 29 February 2008 Dispatches from Disaster Zones  Foreign Press Association, London 12 December 2007 Symposium examining the reporting of civilians affected by conflict in the British media Eighth Meeting of the States Parties to the Mine Ban Convention  Dead Sea, Jordan, 18 – 22 November 2007
Eighth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction30th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement  Geneva, 26 - 30 November 2007
The 30th International Conference grouping the National Societies, their International Federation, the ICRC and the 194 States party to the Geneva Conventions, took place from 26 to 30 November 2007, in Geneva, at the International Conference Center (CICG).Event
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