Malaysia: 14th National IHL Moot Court Competition
… this amendment, Hakova was referred to as an autonomous region of the Boubhan State. The …
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Mexico Annual Report 2019
… always be by public servants and abuses by weapon bearers operating migration. As a … circles, a team was set up at the National Autonomous University of Mexico to take part in …
Table of National Committees and other national bodies on international humanitarian law
… General, IHL experts, members of the autonomous communities, and the Spanish Red … of the President of Ukraine to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (by agreement), a …
Strengthening Compliance with IHL – Preparatory discussion, 1-2 December 2014
… stressed by some that the distinct and autonomous character of the Meeting of States …
Meeting of States on strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law
… binding the Movement - The distinct and autonomous character of the two bodies b) In … stressed by some that the distinct and autonomous character of the Meeting of States …
Strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law: The work of the ICRC and the Swiss government (2015-2019)
… Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are autonomous organizations established within a … authorities in the humanitarian field. 15 As autonomous organizations with certain …
Central America: Annual Report 2020
… women’s prisons. understood and accepted by weapon bearers, civil servants, academics, … of violence (people with gunshot and other weapon psychosocial care for people physically … of detention. The ICRC and the National Autonomous University Hospital of Honduras …
Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict - Report
… with humanitarian considerations. The best weapon the ICRC has to protect the victims of … and the local protection unit staffed autonomous authorities are in charge of … (government and State bodies, local autonomous authorities) and, subsidiarily, by …
New Report - Domestic Normative Frameworks for the Protection of Health Care
… Agency (NADIMA).232 This is a semi-autonomous body with representatives from …
Joining forces to secure water and sanitation in protracted crises: a new report
… urban water utilities had been working as autonomous, decentralized, corporate … WSS service providers that were neither autonomous nor able to control their finances. …
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