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Chair’s Summary Report of State Expert Meeting on IHL: Protecting the Natural Environment in Armed Conflict
Armed conflicts can have a devastating impact on the environment, and the environmental consequences of conflict in turn threaten people's health and livelihoods. States met to discuss in 2023. …
ICRC joins the World Bank in Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project
… the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT). URL: https://www.fao.org/3/i2801e/i2801e.pdf 4 … EHS Guidelines can be found at the following URL: … locusts, scorpions, lizards and geckos, vipers, eagles, peregrine falcons, gazelles …
SRI Business Card
… conflicts. This business card contains a URL and a QR code to the official website of …
The Potential Human Cost of the Use of Weapons in Outer Space and the Protection Afforded by International Humanitarian Law
While space objects have been employed for military purposes since the dawn of the space era, the weaponization of outer space would increase the likelihood of hostilities in outer space, with …
Strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law: The work of the ICRC and the Swiss government (2015-2019)
… website has in the meantime been set up. The URL is: www.respect-ihl.ch. Access to the …
Call for Papers: Ethiopian Journal of International Humanitarian Law (EJIHL)
… University, place]/available at [insert full URL]). J. Smith, ‘German Reunification’ (1998) … if year only)], available at [insert full URL], at [page number if a direct quote or …
Support project for emergency department of Pyongyang Medical College Hospital
The project brief elaborates on the short- and long-term support that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Red Cross Society (DPRK RCS) …
International humanitarian law and cyber operations during armed conflicts
In this position paper, the ICRC presents its views on cyber operations and international humanitarian law (IHL). The use of cyber operations during armed conflicts is a reality. While only a few …
Implementing IHL in West Africa: Redux
In November 2018, a West African International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Plan of Action was validated by experts from 14 countries in the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS]. This …
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