Senior staff of DPRK Red Cross discuss laws of war at workshop
… also planning to distribute 500 copies of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols in the …
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Promoting the Teaching of IHL in Universities: Overview, Successes and Challenges of the ICRC’s Approach
… Abstract According to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, States have to include …
International Humanitarian Law is key to upholding multilateralism and addressing global challenges
… can have a long lasting impact. The Geneva Conventions will celebrate their 70th … and committed themselves to - under the Geneva Conventions and other components of …
The role of parliamentarians in implementing International Humanitarian Law
… is set forth in Article 1 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, which requires States to … are violated. Protection of the emblems The Geneva Conventions and their Additional …
Autonomous weapons: States must agree on what human control means in practice
… 20-11-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – Should a weapon system be able … Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in Geneva FROM 23 TO 21 November, the ICRC will …
Diplomacy at the Service of Humanitarian Objectives
… will take place at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The event will reflect … Claudio Avruj, UK Permanent Representative in Geneva H.E. Julian Braithwaite, and Argentine … Project Plan are provided for in the Geneva Conventions and are central to the ICRC's …
Diplomacy in the service of humanitarian objectives: Falkland/Malvinas Islands
… Geneva (ICRC) – “Diplomacy in the service of … Wednesday 21 November at ICRC headquarters in Geneva. The aim was to present the best … Project Plan are provided for in the Geneva Conventions and are central to the ICRC’s …
ICRC President statement on 150th Anniversary of the St Petersburg Declaration
… inter-war period of the 20th century, to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the disarmament … dialogue and breaches of widely accepted conventions. The ICRC is a neutral, impartial, …
Australia: New technologies and implications for states
… 36 of the first Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions. Article 36 requires states to …
Voices from Within: A decade of questions racing through the minds of war surgeons in the Middle East and North Africa
… Regional Affairs cell in Beirut, edited in Geneva, then laid out and translated into … soldiers, and in 1863, he and his peers in Geneva founded the International Committee for … with and apply the provisions of the Geneva Conventions, i.e. that they care for members …
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