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Choosing humanity: new video and online game challenge us to confront how numb we have become to abuses to the rules of war

… 07-11-2017 Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC this week launches a … with a new way of engaging with the Geneva Conventions. The interactive microsite …

News release

Malaysia: 14th National IHL Moot Court Competition

… State of Toukanov was a party to: - 1949 Geneva Conventions 1977 Protocols I and II Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 Rome …

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Exhibition marks ICRC’s 25 years in Armenia

… affected by the conflict, mandated by the Geneva Conventions to protect and to assist them. For …

News release

China: Law schools vie for top spot in humanitarian law competition

… the means and methods of warfare. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …

News release

War in cities: Towards a holistic response

… began by underlining that all parties to the Geneva Conventions shared a responsibility for …

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Meeting of the States Parties to the Biological weapons convention - 2017

… and on their Destruction, 4–8 December 2017, Geneva. Statement by the ICRC Efforts to … prohibit biological weapons through the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the Biological Weapons … States still holding reservations to the Geneva Protocol to withdraw them, since the …

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How law protects persons with disabilities in armed conflict

… of 1 See, for instance, Common Art. 3, 1949 Geneva Conventions (GCs); Art. 75, 1977 Additional … prioritized. This is recognized in the Fourth Geneva Convention, according to which opposing …

Article

Professor (Dr.) Muhammad Munir on IHL

… Pakistan (GoP) has not yet incorporated the Geneva Conventions and its Protocols into its … in its commitment to talking about IHL? The Geneva Conventions and its Protocols should be …

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Migrants: Vulnerabilities & Protection

… Movement – of which State Parties to the Geneva Conventions are members. We work together with … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red …

Report

ICRC appeal to fund its operations in 2018

… by contributions from States party to the Geneva Conventions, supranational organizations, … Division 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T + 41 22 734 60 01 F + 41 …

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