Young Humanitarian Writers Competition launched to spread power of humanity
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Common ethical principles of health care in conflict and other emergencies
… humanitarian law, in particular the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional …
Ethical principles of health care in conflict and emergencies
… consensus, which led to the first Geneva Convention of 1864. Today, this …
Peter Maurer on ethical principles of health care in conflict
… consensus, which led to the first Geneva Convention of 1864. Today, this …
Informal Meeting on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 13 July 2012
… Humanitarian Law Friday, 13 July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland Guidance Document … At the Conference on the “60 Years of the Geneva Conventions and the Decades Ahead”, States …
South Sudan: Facts and figures June 2015 - Scaling up operations to meet growing needs
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
Mandela Day: Improving the lives of detainees
… world of political imprisonment.” “The Geneva Conventions...continue to remind us most … with the ICRC, which we nicknamed “M-Geneva”, was in 1980 following a hunger strike …
Madagascar: Exhibition on “War from the Victims' Perspective”
… the ICRC and that it is the custodian of the Geneva Conventions, which firmly demonstrates its … of the 150th anniversary of the 1864 Geneva Convention, whose aim was to protect …
Kyrgyzstan: A look back at 2014 and forward to the remainder of 2015
… of the ICRC (in 2013) and of the original Geneva Convention (in 2014), the Swiss embassy …
Family must be allowed to visit Palestinian hunger striker in critical condition
… him as a matter of urgency." Under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, detainees have a …
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