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The Potential Human Cost of the Use of Weapons in Outer Space and the Protection Afforded by International Humanitarian Law

… in the 1977 Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, as well as in customary … of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, ICRC, Geneva, 2019, p. 27. 9 UN General Assembly, UN …

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Technology

Our work in Armenia in 2018

… Based on its mandate enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC has special prerogatives …

Law and policy topic

Inclusive programming in ICRC operations: Final assessment report

… assessments was the importance of formed in Geneva to address this issue and has providing … alignment with the relevant clauses in the Geneva Conventions, their commentaries and ICRC …

Report

Digital Dilemmas Dialogue #9 - Digital identities: Protecting people’s data

… includes States that are signatories of the Geneva Conventions, we adopted a resolution on the … qui réunit les États du monde, signataire des Conventions de Genève et le Mouvement de la …

Event

Key findings on supporting and strengthening work with relatives of missing persons

… of the Red Cross 19, Avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland … Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, Geneva, 2009, available at: … Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, Geneva, 2009; ICRC, Accompanying the Families …

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Gaza: survey shows heavy toll of chronic power shortages on exhausted families

… its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. it is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and works in more than …

News release

Armed violence and the new urban agenda: Recommendations for Habitat III

… of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 F +41 …

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Restoring Family Links code of conduct on data protection

… which took place from 9–12 December 2019 in Geneva.   REFERENCE DOCUMENTS Resolution on … in accordance with the provisions of the four Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols and …

Article

Joining forces to secure water and sanitation in protracted crises: a new report

… on the territory of a State [party to the Geneva Conventions]. The armed confrontation must … Humanitarian Law?” ICRC Opinion Paper. Geneva: ICRC. …

Publication

Tausug book on intersections between IHL and Islamic Shariah launched

… Law). Timagna siya ha Panagnaan Par-isunan ha Geneva (First Geneva Convention) sin tahun 1864, ha … Hikaupat Par-isunan ha Geneva (Fourth Geneva Conventions) sin tahun 1949, agad na in ganap …

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