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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

Our work in Armenia in 2018

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

Law and policy topic

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 …

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

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

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

Pakistan: Health Care in Danger study undertaken in Karachi

The ICRC together with its Karachi partners APPNA Institute of Public Health, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and Ziauddin University recently finished a study on violence against health personnel …

Video

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 …

Law and policy topic

Central America: Annual Report 2020

… BY VIOLENCE codes for the ICRC HQ intranet in Geneva. 85 physical and mental health … the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the ICRC, together with …

Law and policy topic

General and specific protection of women under international humanitarian law

… in situations of armed conflict. KEY GC = Geneva Convention AP = Additional Protocol ICC …

Law and policy topic

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