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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 …

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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 …

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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) …

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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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Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems

… that the need to preserve human control over weapon systems and the use of force in armed conflict will require limits on autonomous weapon systems. This report from … is required to mitigate the risks posed by autonomous weapons. It proposes three types of …

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ICRC operational response to COVID-19 in the Asia-Pacific

… evacuations and health-care assistance to weapon-wounded civilians. Our commitment to … –– Ministry of Health (Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao - BARMM) … Region) Del Sur Cotabato City Maguindanao Autonomous Region In Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) …

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Central America: Annual Report 2020

… women’s prisons. understood and accepted by weapon bearers, civil servants, academics, … of violence (people with gunshot and other weapon psychosocial care for people physically … of detention. The ICRC and the National Autonomous University Hospital of Honduras …

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Winners of third Arabic writing competition on 70th anniversary of Geneva Conventions

… to The Use of Artificial Intelligence Weapons Systems in Armed Conflicts” Al-Ishash … research entitled “Legal Review of the Lethal Autonomous Weapon System”   On the other hand, the ICRC …

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IHL: a primer for House of Commons staff

… in the hostilities and restricts the types of weapons deployed and the way they are used. … of cultural property, urban conflict and autonomous weapons as well as public international law …

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