Kenya: Facts & Figures 2024
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ICRC award for humanitarian reporting 2020
Open to Palestinian journalists working in print media The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), an independent humanitarian organization working to protect and assist victims of armed …
How does law protect in war?
… of the 1977 Geneva Protocols and the 1981 Weapons Convention, London, British Institute … CUP, 2001, 300 pp. GILL Terry, “The Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion of the … Law, the International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons, Cambridge, CUP, 1999, pp. …
Information kit: Development of national legislation to implement the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines
… for ending the suffering caused by these weapons. At its core are obligations intended … of economic and individual activities with weapons • Law of 9 March 1995 on … country of firearms, chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, ammunition or explosive …
Implementing IHL in West Africa: Redux
… and IDPs, sexual violence in armed conflict, weapons, and dissemination of IHL, among … of joint projects with small arms and light weapons committees (SALWC), who may benefit … 4. Signature / ratification of the Nuclear Weapons Treaty Mali Senegal 1. …
Catalogue of publications and films in Arabic
… The Missing 131 مطبوعات- األسلحة Weapons - Publications 145 أفالم- األسلحة … الحكومات بنودها Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is the first globally …
Nigeria: Responding to humanitarian needs in a context complicated by COVID19
… ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in August 2020, becoming one of …
Extraterritorial targeting by means of armed drones: Some legal implications
… aerial vehicle is also in common use. Second, weapons with autonomy in the “critical … legal and other issues related to autonomous weapons see ICRC, Autonomous Weapon Systems: … See ICJ, Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Reports …
The interplay between international humanitarian law and international human rights law in situations of armed conflict
… on the Legality of the Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons of 1996 with respect to the ICCPR: The … 157-171. 52 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, 1996 I.C.J. …
ICRC presents record budget for 2015 to meet vastly expanding needs
… Arms Trade Treaty, 2 April 2013 Biological Weapons Convention Convention on the … of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, 10 April … in implementing activities. radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons or agents The ICRC …
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