Niger: Displaced persons in Diffa region utterly destitute
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ICRC activities in Bangladesh in 2014
… National IHL Committee, a workshop on the Geneva Convention Implementing Act and its …
The implementation of rules protecting the provision of health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies: A guidance tool
… humanitarian law since the initial Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864. In … on the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, identification cards and armlets …
28th session of the Human Rights Council 2 March 2015, Geneva, Switzerland
… progress reflected in the adoption of various conventions on international humanitarian law …
Building momentum to improve the lives of people affected by conflict
… Maurer addresses the Human Rights Council in Geneva I am honored to address the Human … progress reflected in the adoption of various conventions on international humanitarian law …
Unnumbered ICRC Circulars 1952-1954: “Replies of the International Committee of the Red Cross to requests for information on the Geneva Conventions and cognate questions”
… the first Commentaries to the newly adopted Geneva Conventions of 1949, it sent National … Red Cross to requests for information on the Geneva Conventions and cognate questions". The …
Wars without limits are wars without end.
… But which limits? For the past 150 years, the Geneva Conventions and other bodies of international … fundamentals that lie at the heart of the Geneva Conventions. This global social …
South Sudan: Facts and figures March 2015 - Promoting the laws that protect civilians in conflict
… on IHL, the core of which is set out in the Geneva Conventions but which is also a part of the … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red …
Prevention and Criminal Repression of Rape and Other Forms of Sexual Violence During Armed Conflicts
… no international treaty, including the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … of such acts can be found in the four Geneva Conventions (GC I, II, III and IV) of …
Humanitarian situation and ICRC action in Colombia
… with an uncle. Protocol II additional to the Geneva Conventions Article 4.2.e.: [T]he following … Protocol II additional to the Geneva Conventions, articles 7, 9.1 and 14 …
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