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Exceptional Florence Nightingale Medal awarded to nurses, midwives in captivity

… 12-05-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The 2020 Florence Nightingale … Nightingale broke away from the social conventions of her time to embrace a vocation … Maurer, please contact: Didier Revol, ICRC Geneva, Tel.: +41 79 235 71 93or …

News release

Ethiopia: Army officers discuss laws of armed conflict and international human rights standards

… colleagues. Formally entrusted under the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols …

Law and policy topic

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

Statement by the ICRC Vice-President Gilles Carbonnier at the Ninth Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty

… the obligation in Article 1 Common to the Geneva Conventions, which binds all states, to …

Statement

Preventing separation, searching for the missing, and reuniting families since 1870

… their loved ones. We are entrusted by the Geneva Conventions as a neutral intermediary to … radio and other technologies. Outlined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the agency …

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Legal protection of children in armed conflict

… the particular vulnerability of children, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (hereafter GCIII and GCIV) …

Law and policy topic

Civilian "direct participation in hostilities": overview

… part in hostilities". However, neither the Geneva Conventions nor their Additional Protocols … expert meetings were held in The Hague and Geneva between 2003 and 2008, bringing …

Law and policy topic

War in Yemen: Don’t look away from the world’s largest humanitarian crisis

… conferred on us by States in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional … this mandate on the ICRC in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional …

Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC office in Gaza damaged, civilians and humanitarian workers must be protected

… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

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Australia: New technologies and implications for states

… 36 of the first Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions. Article 36 requires states to …

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