Overcrowding: Pakistan prisons holding 57% more inmates than capacity
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International conference opening: ICRC president address
… in the context of combat operations, counter terrorism and public order policies of … hold legitimate security concerns, counter terrorism measures can also restrict …
Dakar Forum on Peace and Security: “There can be no security without human security”
… to stress the negative impact of counter-terrorism measures and sanctions that can … humanitarian exemptions to counter-terrorism measures and sanctions. If …
150 years of humanitarian action
… / v-p-rw-00024-14 2001: The fight against terrorism New challenges arise for the ICRC …
International law on the conduct of hostilities: overview
International law on the conduct of hostilities regulates and limits the methods and means of warfare used by parties to an armed conflict. It aims to strike a balance between legitimate military …
Second Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty
… and of human rights law, including acts of terrorism and sexual and gender-based …
Extraterritorial targeting by means of armed drones: Some legal implications
… and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Ben Emmerson, UN Doc. A/HRC/25/59, … Leiden Policy Recommendations on Counterterrorism and International Law, 1 April 2010, … President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, The Ethics and Efficacy of the …
ICRC perspectives on the protection of children
… countries' legitimacy to take counterterrorism measures; in fact, acts of terror …
Azerbaijan: Summer school on international humanitarian law – resting by learning
… marked since the end of the Cold War, with terrorism becoming a major means of waging …
Childhood in the shadow of airstrikes and rockets
The latest escalation which broke out in May 2021 in Gaza and Israel is one of the most intense hostilities that we, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), have witnessed in the region …
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