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This concern has only been heightened by the failure, after 10 years of diplomatic efforts, to strengthen the 1972 Biological ... Responsibilities - These risks and rules generate responsibilities for ...

• 2003-06-30
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

• Topic
  • Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
    • Council of delegates
      • 2003

Montreux_report_cover 16-09-2002 BWH An informal meeting of government and independent experts Montreux, ... The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in keeping with its mandate to protect ...

• 2002-09-16
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

... including greater awareness and support for the ICRC initiative on biotechnology, weapons and humanity (BWH). ... to promote the BWH initiative with national authorities, the scientific and medical ...

• 2003-12-06
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

• Topic
  • Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
    • International Conference
      • 28th Conference

K More information about the ICRC's Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity appeal is available on our website www.icrc.org/eng/bwh. ... Unit by e-mail (bwh.gva@icrc.org) or by telephone (+41 22 730 26 67).

• 2003-09-26
• Publication

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross 15-04 ... This Appeal (available on www.icrc.org/eng/bwh) calls upon all political and military authorities to strengthen their commitment ...

• 2003-04-15
• Statement

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Humanitarian diplomacy and communication
      • United Nations
        • Commission on human rights
          • 59th Commission on human rights

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Contemporary challenges for IHL

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

The publication presents the most fundamental and contemporary legal ... MEYER Michael A. (ed.), Armed Conflict and the New Law: Aspects of the 1977 Geneva Protocols and the 1981 Weapons Convention, ...

• 2011-03-16
• Publication
• by: Marco Sassòli, Antoine A. Bouvier, Anne Quintin

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Building respect for IHL
      • Education and outreach
        • Universities

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law

Founded in 1919, the IFRC directs and coordinates international assistance of the Movement to victims of natural and technological ... The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is guided ...

• 2011-12-20
• Publication

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Cooperating with National Societies

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Humanitarian diplomacy and communication

ICRC'yi Keşfedin bir yandan bu tarihi geçmişi ve ICRC'nin değerlerini anlatmakta öte yandan da kuruluşun dünya çapındaki koruma, ... Broşür aynı zamanda, amblemleri kullanma yetkisi olan kuruluşları ...

• 2012-03-14
• Section

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • Turkey

In 1899, Czar Nicholas II was con cerned about technological ... Likewise, various international agreements (for example, the 1925 Geneva Protocol [9 ] wh ich were originally regarded as being ...

• 1999-06-30
• Article
• by: Robert J. Mathews, Timothy L.H. McCormack [1]

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Small arms availability

As a matter of fact, Swiss neutrality is a very topical issue and one that must be addressed at a time when Switzerland is ... Moreover, Switzerland is the country that convened the international ...

• 2004-05-26
• Statement

• Topic
  • About the ICRC

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • Switzerland

She is senior legal adviser at the ICRC; she has specialized in particular in questions relating to the conduct of hostilities and ... However, these rules in Protocol I apply only to naval attacks ...

• 1995-12-31
• Article
• by: Louise Doswald-Beck

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Conduct of hostilities
      • Air and naval warfare

In a world wh ere borders are increasingly losing their importance and an eye for the bigger picture is becoming ever more ... Illan hendignibh ex exeros president nisof ea the feui ICRC blaorpe , ...

• 2008-06-30
• Feature
• by: Mandana Razavi

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Private sector relations

... The Biological and Toxic Weapons (BW) Convention was drafted and concluded p rimarily as a disarmament measure. ... to regard the BW Convention as a significant contribution to the humanization of ...

• 1997-06-30
• Article
• by: Valentin A. Romanov

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

Whilst these constraints need to be borne in mind, the jurisprudence from these cases provides a significant marker for the use of ... However, this has not been the case and the failure of the ...

• 1998-09-30
• Article
• by: Aisling Reidy

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • IHL and other legal regimes
      • IHL and human rights

As you know, today's " new " conflicts are characterized not only ... greater awareness of what it was wh en it intervened in other societies, its work would be better understood and in the long run ...

• 1998-12-14
• Miscellaneous
• Archived page

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

In addition, the rules governing non-international armed conflicts, contained in Article 3 common to all four Conventio ns, ... We shall examine the various aspects of this protection in the following ...

• 1985-12-31
• Article
• by: Françoise Krill

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Protected persons
      • Women

• People
  • Women

In the next few days the ICRC will reopen its office in Kenema, ... in a helicopter marked with the red cross emblem, from wh ere a plane marked with the red cross flew them on to Abidjan.

• 1996-03-04
• Operational Update
• Archived page

• Places
  • Africa
    • Sierra Leone

The current situation The United Nations Mine Action Centre (UNMAC ... Medical treatment In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the percentage of mine victims wh o die from their injuries appears to be lower than ...

• 1998-02-01
• Miscellaneous
• Archived page

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • Bosnia-Herzegovina

In the history of humankind, no matter how far back we look into ... He believed that " in the area of international relations, too, the time will come wh en the great law of social life will finally ...

• 1996-06-30
• Article
• by: Vladimir Pustogarov

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

01-12-1998 If Colombia, where the ICRC's People on War project went ... The desire for revenge so acute (and wh o is to blame them?) among the women of Sarajevo stood in stark contrast to the sagging ...

• 1998-12-01
• Miscellaneous
• Archived page

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Social research on war

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • Serbia

It is a long litany of proposals that have been accepted and then amended, of projects that have been aborted and then reinstated, ... In the words of Max Huber, this " humanitarian iron ration " [10 ] ...

• 1995-06-30
• Article
• by: Jacques Meurant

Because of this dual military and political nature, the nuclear ... In substance, the ICJ endorsed the status quo to the effect that wh ile " neither international customary law nor international ...

• 2003-03-18
• Miscellaneous
• by: Kim Gordon-Bates

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Nuclear weapons

Extract from "HIV in Prisons: A reader with particular relevance to the newly independent states", chapter 9, pp.193-218, ... Prison medical care should be tailored to the special needs of women in ...

• 2000-12-01
• Miscellaneous
• by: Hernán Reyes
• Archived page

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Health
      • Health in prisons

In addition to general information on the activities of the tracing services, these records contain all the personal data gathered ... Protection of personal data The ICRC files and records available ...

• 2006-12-12
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

" We never worked in that specific neighbourhood before the earthquake, but we did know many of the ... " People are moving in for the long term, " says James, wh o has six children and was born in Bel Air.

• 2010-01-25
• Feature

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Health

• Places
  • The Americas
    • Haiti