Living with landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aldin Karavdić was tending a herd of goats close to his family's home when he stepped on a landmine. The 16-year-old suffered severe injuries, especially to his right leg – luckily, doctors were able …
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Meeting of the States Parties to the Biological weapons convention - 2017
Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, 4–8 …
Experts Discuss New Technologies in Warfare and International Humanitarian Law
The ICRC and the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) jointly organised a panel discussion on 4 October 2017 in New Delhi with the objective to provide an understanding of the use of new …
African Union: 40th anniversary of Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions
Drafted for the first time with African states’ contribution Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions have been drafted with contributions from the newly independent African States for the …
Strengthening coordination of UN humanitarian and disaster relief assistance: ICRC statement to the United Nations, 2017
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the UN, including special economic assistance, United Nations General Assembly, 72nd Session, Agenda item 73 (a). …
Stricken by communal violence and malnutrition in Tanganyika, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate dramatically in the province of Tanganyika in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). According to the United Nations, since …
Missing persons: ICRC organizes two-day study tour to Cyprus
Nicosie (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently organized a two-day study tour to Cyprus for the Georgian and Abkhaz participants of the coordination mechanism it chairs …
Sarajevo: Seminar on the interplay between international humanitarian law and Islamic Law
On 20 December 2017, the ICRC organized a joint seminar on the interplay between International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Islamic Law, in collaboration with the Faculty of Islamic Studies (FIS) of …
7 issues that will shape the humanitarian agenda in 2018
By Peter Maurer, the ICRC President . Syria enters its seventh year of fighting in 2018. Hunger and disease will affect millions of people in Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Around the world, people …
Autonomous weapon systems under international humanitarian law
To coincide with the first meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons on autonomous weapon systems in November …
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