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Workshop structure - Sexual violence in armed conflicts workshop

… How does law protect in war?, 3rd. ed., ICRC, Geneva, 2011, also available online at: … How does law protect in war?, 3rd. ed., ICRC, Geneva, 2011, also available online at: … to prosecute grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs …

Publication

Commentary on the First Geneva Convention (flyer)

… promotes the updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention – the first in a series of …

Law and policy topic

Ninth Senior Workshop on International Rules Governing Military Operations (SWIRMO).

… laid the groundwork for the adoption of the Geneva Conventions. Years before Henry Dunant came … in domestic legislation and international conventions dealing with terrorism – the two …

Statement

Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

… the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian … States party to Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. In 2006, the Third Review …

Statement

Azerbaijan / Armenia: ICRC facilitates handover of Armenian citizen

… 12-11-2015 Geneva/Yerevan/Baku (ICRC) – An Armenian … On the basis of its mandate under the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC has been working …

News release

Ready-to-use workshop on sexual violence in armed conflict

… protect in war?" allows students to apply the Geneva Conventions to concrete issues related to … How does law protect in war?, 3rd. ed., ICRC, Geneva, 2011, also available online at: …

Article

Peacekeeping operations: ICRC statement to the United Nations, 2015

… for IHL contained in Article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 more operational. For …

Statement

International humanitarian law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts

… Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2015. … Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2015. … Articles 2 and 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. 2 This challenge has been the …

Law and policy topic

Generating respect for the law: Taking stock, moving forward

…   On 22 October, the ICRC and the Geneva Academy organized a conference to … and International Organization, University of Geneva Helen Durham, Director of International … this extract of the commentary of the Geneva Conventions, Naz K. Modirzadeh articulated how …

Law and policy topic

Generating respect for the law: Taking stock, moving forward

…   On 22 October, the ICRC and the Geneva Academy organized a conference to … and International Organization, University of Geneva Helen Durham, Director of International … this extract of the commentary of the Geneva Conventions, Naz K. Modirzadeh articulated how …

Event

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