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Chair’s Summary Report of State Expert Meeting on IHL: Protecting the Natural Environment in Armed Conflict
Armed conflicts can have a devastating impact on the environment, and the environmental consequences of conflict in turn threaten people's health and livelihoods. States met to discuss in 2023. …
ICRC joins the World Bank in Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project
The Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project (FSRRP) was approved by the World Bank Board on May 11, 2021. The project’s objective is to improve the availability of and access to food and …
SRI Business Card
The ICRC established the Support Relationships in Armed Conflict Initiative (SRI) in response to the scale of human suffering resulting from armed conflicts featuring the provision of external …
The Potential Human Cost of the Use of Weapons in Outer Space and the Protection Afforded by International Humanitarian Law
While space objects have been employed for military purposes since the dawn of the space era, the weaponization of outer space would increase the likelihood of hostilities in outer space, with …
Strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law: The work of the ICRC and the Swiss government (2015-2019)
Following a resolution adopted by the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, between 2015 and 2019 Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) jointly …
Call for Papers: Ethiopian Journal of International Humanitarian Law (EJIHL)
Theme: Enhancing implementation of IHL in Ethiopia: Achievements, challenges, and way forward The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian …
Support project for emergency department of Pyongyang Medical College Hospital
The project brief elaborates on the short- and long-term support that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Red Cross Society (DPRK RCS) …
International humanitarian law and cyber operations during armed conflicts
In this position paper, the ICRC presents its views on cyber operations and international humanitarian law (IHL). The use of cyber operations during armed conflicts is a reality. While only a few …
Implementing IHL in West Africa: Redux
In November 2018, a West African International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Plan of Action was validated by experts from 14 countries in the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS]. This …
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