How diverse leadership shaped responses to COVID-19 within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
… its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Humanitarian Horizons …
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Missing persons: high cost of conflict and violence in Africa
… and the ICRC’s Central Tracing Agency in Geneva. Restoring Family Links Restoring … non-international armed conflicts, see: Geneva Conventions (GC) III Articles 70–71; GC IV …
Annual Report 2020
… online round table on Article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions. The Malian military, with ICRC … of the Updated Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention. Some students and …
Tagalog book on intersections between IHL and Islamic jurisprudence launched
… proseso ng panahon na nagsimula sa unang Geneva Convention ng 1864 para mapabuti ang … at ibat-ibang bansa sa pagtalaga sa apat na Geneva Conventions ng 1949 at ang mga karagdagang …
Missing persons in Nepal: the right to know - updated list 2014
… to the conflict (Art. 3 common to the Four Geneva Conventions). Kishor Kayastha/ICRC SUFFERING … The legal obligations are laid down in the Geneva Conventions, their Additional Protocols …
Annual Report 2021
… up a draft bill for implementing the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional … table on its updated commentaries on the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Together with Buddhist …
COVID-19: How IHL provides crucial safeguards during pandemics
… Articles 3 and 9/9/9/10 of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 spell out the so-called …
Report: Colombia: humanitarian challenges 2016
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
Commemorating the Missing
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
Evaluation of the integration of thematics into ICRC field operations
… files they perceive as “new” or “imposed by Geneva”-Survey respondent Some delegations …
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