South Sudan: Facts and figures June 2015 - Scaling up operations to meet growing needs
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Mandela Day: Improving the lives of detainees
… world of political imprisonment.” “The Geneva Conventions...continue to remind us most … with the ICRC, which we nicknamed “M-Geneva”, was in 1980 following a hunger strike …
Informal Meeting on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 13 July 2012
… Humanitarian Law Friday, 13 July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland Guidance Document … At the Conference on the “60 Years of the Geneva Conventions and the Decades Ahead”, States …
Peter Maurer on ethical principles of health care in conflict
… consensus, which led to the first Geneva Convention of 1864. Today, this …
Ethical principles of health care in conflict and emergencies
… consensus, which led to the first Geneva Convention of 1864. Today, this …
Common ethical principles of health care in conflict and other emergencies
… humanitarian law, in particular the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional …
Young Humanitarian Writers Competition launched to spread power of humanity
… Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Geneva Conventions, the main body of IHL. The …
Contemporary Challenges to Humanitarian Action, 7th Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Lecture on International Humanitarian Law
… and exclusion. For the past 150 years, the Geneva Conventions and other bodies of international … will of the parties to a conflict. The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I …
Hunger-striking Palestinian detainee’s life in danger
… was granted a family visit. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, detainees have a … +972526019148 Sitara Jabeen (English), ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 22 730 24 78 or +41 79 536 92 …
ICRC archives to be opened, 1966-1975
… Circulaires aux gouvernements Conventions de Genève et leur interprétation; … 022-253 ''The Course of Five Lessons on the Geneva Conventions'' de Henri Coursier … Ouvrage du professeur Umozurike : ''The Geneva Convention and Africa'' …
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