How we are accountable to the people we help
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
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Helping detainees
… with a unique mandate granted by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, we …
Dialogue with weapon bearers
… stated explicitly in Common Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions. From a practical point of view, …
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