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Nigeria: Healthcare in Danger Training Module for Medical Students, Healthcare Workers and Teachers

… MODULE FOUR: THE DISTINCTIVE EMBLEMS OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION 23 Use of the Emblems 23 … workers, chapter four; the emblems of the Geneva convention and the final chapter talks … and who refrain State party to the Geneva Conventions from any act of hostility. This …

Publication

ICRC’s Fifth IHL Arabic Writing Competition

… to climate change - Common Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions: States' obligation to respect and …

Article

The challenges for humanitarian action in today’s conflicts: the perspective from the International Committee of the Red Cross

… through our permanent dialogue in Moscow, Geneva and other capitals. The ICRC operates in … the mandate provided by States in the Geneva Conventions and in other frameworks …

Statement

How diverse leadership shaped responses to COVID-19 within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

… its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Humanitarian Horizons This …

Article

Missing and Deceased Migrants and their Families

… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and …

Law and policy topic

International Criminal Justice: The Institutions

… Statute, namely, grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws and customs … violations of Article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II, …

Legal factsheet

1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and … of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 …

Law and policy topic

1993 Chemical Weapons Convention

… and their use was prohib­ited by the 1925 Geneva Protocol. The adoption of the Convention … and their use was prohibited by the 1925 Geneva Protocol. The adoption of the Convention … the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and …

Law and policy topic

2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions

… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and … of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 …

Law and policy topic

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