Malaysia: 18th national IHL moot court competition 2021
… with the local university to organize an International Humanitarian Law moot court competition where students …
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Nigeria: Facts and figures from January to June 2021
… UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. The International Committee of the Red Cross … of the country. "The challenges of meeting humanitarian need in the face of a global … RESPECT FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW (IHL) PROTECTION OF THE RED CROSS EMBLEM: …
ICRC: Education should not be a battleground
… violence. Excellencies, As we mark the second International Day to Protect Education from … Protecting education also means ensuring that laws, policies and military doctrine and … must work for better respect of international humanitarian law protecting education from …
Pakistan: Launch of the DLP Forum marks 72 years of the Geneva Conventions and creates IHL discussion space
… of the Geneva Conventions on 12 August, the International Committee of the Red Cross … and the Research Society of International Law (RSIL) jointly launched the Diplomacy, Law … dialogue on issues related to international humanitarian law (IHL), diplomacy and policy. …
Bringing IHL Home: Guidelines on the National Implementation of International Humanitarian Law
… In December 2019, the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and … national implementation of international humanitarian law . The resolution is based on the widely …
Statement by ICRC Vice-President Gilles Carbonnier on the Seventh Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty
… of people. Every day, staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross … and other situations of violence receive humanitarian protection and assistance. … be used to violate international humanitarian law or human rights law. Mr President, The …
Digital Dilemmas Debate #6: Forensic Archaeology and new tools in the humanitarian search for the Missing
… What should humanitarians know about imagery and remote … graves containing human remains? To mark the International Day of the Disappeared, we have … drones in the search for the missing | The Laws of War (01:11) Missing People, DNA …
Webinar: International humanitarian law and protection of the natural environment: A preventive response
… of prevention among a range of stakeholders. International Humanitarian Law (IHL) contains specific and general …
ICRC Launches the Missing Persons Lebanon Community and Calls for the Swift Operationalization of the National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared
… 30-08-2021 On the eve of the International Day of the Disappeared, the … since the Lebanese Parliament has passed Law 105 on the Missing and Forcibly … This right is enshrined in the International Humanitarian Law, and now also in the National …
Missing persons: high cost of conflict and violence in Africa
… of the continent's wider, undocumented humanitarian tragedy. Families are central to … efforts, as are robust institutions and laws. To mark the International Day of the Disappeared, this …
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