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DR Congo: Our action in 2021
… Lebanon Libya Iraq Kuwait Palestine Greece Israel Jordan Egypt Pakistan Oman Bahrain …
"From Zero Cost to Zero Waste": Creative Palestinian Women Help Save the Environment
… Women's Day this year, the ICRC in Israel and the Occupied Territories (ILOT), …
“Conflict sets the clock back to zero” – a career in humanitarian healthcare
… Red Cross she has worked in Somalia, Sudan, Israel, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Myanmar …
The ICRC appeals for 2.4 billion Swiss francs for its operations in 2022
… Republic 134.0 Yemen 100.8 Iraq HEALTH 53.2 Israel and the Occupied Territories 47.5 …
Explosive weapons: Civilians in populated areas must be protected
… Targeted Civilians: A PCHR Report on the Israeli Military Offensive against the Gaza … to the explosion of a suicide bomber”, The Israel Medical Association Journal, Vol. 4, … to military conflict and terror attacks in Israel”, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol. 23, …
Incapacitating chemical agents: Law enforcement, human rights law and policy perspectives
… chemical-weapons possessors as Burma, Egypt, Israel, North Korea and Syria. Whether in fact … I do not know. 8. In the cases of Burma and Israel the freedom to do so was in principle, … whether the weaponization of a fentanyl by an Israeli secret service (for an attack, in …
The history and negotiation of Protocol V to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
… France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, …
ICRC’s year in pictures, 2021: War expands, athletes shine and families reunite
… in Gaza, and rockets reaching big cities in Israel . Landmines and unexploded bombs and …
Middle East in 2021: Despite a year out of the global spotlight, millions remain in need
… in Yemen and Syria. Tensions remain in Israel and the Occupied Territories. And even … the authorities. The situation in Gaza and Israel has been particularly difficult this … in hostilities between Gaza factions and Israel in years. This renewed cycle of …
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