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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 drevol@icrc.org …

News release

Mexico: Challenges to international humanitarian law and humanitarian action

… in Mexico. -3- For the past 150 years, the Geneva Conventions and other bodies of international … will of the parties to a conflict. The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I …

Law and policy topic

Jean-Pictet Competition: Taking the law out of the books

… after the principal artisan of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, has been open to students since …

Video

Legal review of weapons

… says Treaty law Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977 – Article 36 Domestic law New …

Topic
Deactivated cluster sub-munition in South Lebanon, Sadikine village.

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 assist … and other technologies. Outlined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the agency …

Law and policy topic
Copyright CICR

Checklist: Domestic Implementation of International Humanitarian Law Prohibiting Sexual Violence

… GUIDANCE: IHL: • Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions (CA3); ICRC, Commentary on GCI, … also constituting a grave breach under the Geneva Conventions and committed during an IAC. …

Law and policy topic

Weapons: Statement of the ICRC to the United Nations, 2018

… of an Arms Race in Outer Space, held in Geneva in August, the ICRC was able to share … Weapons Systems, which took place in Geneva in August this year, States made some …

Statement

Yemen: A new medical clinic opens at Sa’ada New Remand Prison to improve health and living conditions of detainees

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

News release
Sa'ada Prison Clinic

Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza

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

News release
OEWG IHL

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 respect …

Statement

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