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1954 Convention on the protection of cultural property - Factsheet

… Protocols of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions also contain provisions protecting … Protocols of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions also contain provisions …

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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 …

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The Kampala Convention: Key Recommendations Ten Years On

… Report on Internal Displacement 2019, IDMC, Geneva, 2019: … Internally Displaced People 2018–2020, GP20, Geneva, 2018: … into Practice: A Stocktaking Exercise, ICRC, Geneva, 2016: https://shop.icrc.org/ 8 The …

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2008 Convention on cluster munitions - Model law

… of the Red Cross 19 Avenue de la Paix, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 6001 F+41 22 …

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Checklist: Domestic measures to implement the Convention on Cluster Munitions

… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and … of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 …

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28th session of the Human Rights Council 2 March 2015, Geneva, Switzerland

… reflected in the adoption of various conventions on international humanitarian law …

Statement

It is up to States Parties and the broader Convention community to defend and promote the norms of the Convention on Cluster Munitions

… Agenda item 8 – General Exchange of Views Geneva, 10th September 2024   Madame President, … category of weapons. Together with the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional protocols of …

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World Humanitarian Day: ICRC President on attacks against aid workers

IHL course for humanitarian practitioners and policy-makers in Geneva – 21-24 October 2019

… edition.   Switzerland ICRC Headquarter, Geneva 17 avenue de la paix, 1202 Geneva

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Meeting of the States Parties to the Biological weapons convention - 2017

… and on their Destruction, 4–8 December 2017, Geneva. Statement by the ICRC Efforts to … prohibit biological weapons through the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the Biological Weapons … States still holding reservations to the Geneva Protocol to withdraw them, since the …

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Checklist: Domestic measures to implement the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention

… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and … of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 …

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