Tajikistan: The marks of war
Sadafmo was born in Dashtijum, a remote mountainous village located in the southern part of Tajikistan. In 1995, when she turned 18, her parents decided to marry her to a villager. Everything was …
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Kenya: A journey of fear and hope
Shamsa is using 'Trace the Face' to try to locate her son who decided to take the risky journey to Europe. Each year, thousands of migrants go missing on their way to Europe. Families get separated, …
International Day of the Disappeared: the ICRC calls for respect of the International Humanitarian Law
30-08-2018 Tel Aviv/ Gaza - On the International Day of Disappeared, the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Israel and the Occupied Territories highlights that four …
My time as an intern at ICRC Pakistan
Sitting through my first course of International Law during my bachelors, I remember thinking what it would be like to be a part of an organization that is committed to the mission of upholding …
International Day of the Disappeared in Georgia
30-08-2018 Time is running out for families of 2,400 people who went missing as a result of armed conflicts. Tbilisi (ICRC) – Every year, worldwide, the International Day of the Disappeared is marked …
Making sense of absence: remembering the missing
Laia Abril for ICRC All around the world, people go missing every day. For every missing person, there are countless people missing them. How do those left make sense of their absence? How do they …
1972 Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction is one of the instruments of international …
The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission – Factsheet
To secure the guarantees accorded to the victims of armed conflict, Article 90 of Protocol I of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I) provides for the establishment of …
Statute of the International Criminal Court
The United Nations had considered the idea of establishing a permanent international criminal court at various times since the end of the Second World War. In 1993 and 1994, it set up two ad hoc …
Obligations in terms of penal repression - Factsheet
International humanitarian law (IHL) is the set of rules designed to protect persons who are not, or no longer, participating in hostilities and to limit the methods and means of waging war. It also …
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