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Pakistan: New law to prevent violence against health-care workers, facilities and patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

… services, the entry of unauthorized weapons inside health-care facilities and … its attached department, sub-ordinate offices, autonomous bodies under its administrative … are empowered to regulate these functions autonomously,⁸⁵ as shown by 20 new …

Law and policy topic

Joining forces to secure water and sanitation in protracted crises: a new report

… or operations involving the use of explosive weapons. This is powerfully captured in the … urban water utilities had been working as autonomous, decentralized, corporate … WSS service providers that were neither autonomous nor able to control their finances. …

Publication

Webinar: New Technologies of Warfare and Challenges to International Humanitarian Law

… such as cyber tools and increasingly autonomous weapons systems. The webinar will feature … of new means and methods of warfare. (Autonomous Weapon Systems and Cyberwarfare). …

Event

Looking ahead – the ICRC policy agenda in the UK and Ireland in 2021

… robots and the technological revolution Autonomous weapons – or killer robots to use the … often spoken about in the future tense. But autonomous weapons and artificial intelligence …

Article

Disarmament efforts essential to address humanitarian concerns of weapons technologies

… conflict, its knowledge of the effects of weapons on civilians and combatants, and its … about developments towards increasingly autonomous weapon systems, understood as … that internationally agreed limits on autonomous weapons must be established with …

Statement

Malaysia: 17th national IHL moot court competition 2020

… with the Units coordinating but acting autonomously within their traditional tribal … supplying the TFRA with small and light weapons. Firefights and mortar attacks on mine … with the RIF on “an unnatural chemical weapon”. He warned that “you are no longer …

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Strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law: The work of the ICRC and the Swiss government (2015-2019)

… 6 B. Other IHL treaties, on weapons and cultural property … Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are autonomous organizations established within a … authorities in the humanitarian field. 15 As autonomous organizations with certain …

Article

Third report on the EU guidelines on promoting compliance with IHL

… in the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), its Protocols, the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, the Anti-Personnel … reporting period. These consisted of 25 EU autonomous sanctions regimes, in addition to …

Law and policy topic

Philippines: ICRC operational update (July 2020)

… departments. The ICRC also engaged with weapon bearers, national and regional … departments. The ICRC also engaged with weapon bearers, national and regional … was organized jointly with the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) …

Law and policy topic

Catalogue of publications and films in Arabic

… The Missing 131 ‫ مطبوعات‬- ‫األسلحة‬ Weapons - Publications 145 ‫ أفالم‬- ‫األسلحة‬ … قانونًا‬،‫األساسية هذه‬ ICRC Position on Autonomous Weapon Systems 4550.1/004 … to establish internationally agreed limits on autonomous weapon systems to ensure civilian …

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