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How diverse leadership shaped responses to COVID-19 within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
… its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Humanitarian Horizons …
Annual Report 2021
… up a draft bill for implementing the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional … table on its updated commentaries on the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Together with Buddhist …
Digital trails could endanger people receiving humanitarian aid, ICRC and Privacy International find
… 07-12-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – The humanitarian sector’s … please contact: Philippe Stoll, ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 79 536 92 49 THE … “Guidelines for Cash Transfer Programming” (Geneva: International Red Cross and Red …
Humanitarian challenges 2017: ICRC Colombia Report
… in 1863, the ICRC is the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
Report: Colombia: humanitarian challenges 2016
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
Missing persons in Nepal: the right to know - updated list 2014
… to the conflict (Art. 3 common to the Four Geneva Conventions). Kishor Kayastha/ICRC SUFFERING … The legal obligations are laid down in the Geneva Conventions, their Additional Protocols …
Sri Lanka: Report released on needs of families of missing persons
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red …
COVID-19: How IHL provides crucial safeguards during pandemics
… Articles 3 and 9/9/9/10 of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 spell out the so-called …
EHL list of documents
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