ICRC President: Rising humanitarian needs in Myanmar demand urgent action
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"Urban warfare" exhibition in Brussels
… ) - the foundation of which is based on the Geneva Conventions - nevertheless protects them, as …
Invitation to bid for ICRC tender for hygienic parcels
… extended to March 31th, 2022 at 17:00 (Geneva time) • Sample delivery to the ICRC Geneva and the assigned external laboratory: … Humanitarian Law, notably the Geneva Conventions. Within the above mandates and …
Interactive dialogue on internally displaced persons
… enshrined in Article 1 common to the four Geneva Conventions. The recent peak in displacement …
ACTIVITY REPORT - IRAQ 2023
… to its mandate and mission, derived from the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … ICRC’s oldest institutions enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC seeks to protect …
14th UN Crime Congress: ICRC calls for greater focus on health, dignity of detainees
… management. The ICRC colleagues in both Geneva and Tokyo participated in several … are treated humanely as mandated by the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC visited 1,274 …
We are the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
Reconnecting families
… families are addressed. Enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, it is a permanent structure … Ukraine According to its mandate under the Geneva Conventions, the CTA created a …
Dialogue with the past: the ICRC and the Nazi death camps
… of prisoners of war not protected by the 1929 Geneva Convention. The draft was the subject … the work that led to the adoption of the Geneva Convention relative to the protection …
Humanitarian action and the pursuit of peace: Speech on the anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize
… for the Fondation Gustave Ador, 8 June 2017, Geneva. "It has been claimed that rather than … they met at a very exclusive club in Geneva's old town, Le Cercle de la Terrasse. … Finally, Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, which …
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