Engaging with students and professors on the issue of sexual violence in armed conflicts - workshop
… (c) taking of hostages; (d) acts of terrorism; (e) outrages upon personal dignity, …
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Framework for access to education
… evidence on the impact of education on terrorism.58 Integration of P/CVE … (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism”, Journal of Conflict Resolution, …
Migrants: Vulnerabilities & Protection
… this misses the point about the complexity of terrorism, its origins and how it manifests itself, noting that terrorism already operates well beyond the …
Malaysia: 17th national IHL moot court competition 2020
… a strong statement, condemning the “act of terrorism” on 15 January, and calling it …
Ready-to-use workshop on sexual violence in armed conflict
… (c) taking of hostages; (d) acts of terrorism; (e) outrages upon personal dignity, …
Annual Report 2022
… The inter national school for counter-terrorism in Côte d’Ivoire and the ICRC … sessions, on the applicability of IHL to “terrorism”, for some 95 military, intelligence … discussed IHL in connection with counter- terrorism, while magistrates were sponsored to …
The ICRC biometrics policy
… include border and migration control, counter-terrorism activities and national security. …
The use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas and the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks
37th round table on current issues of international humanitarian law: Conduct of hostilities: the Practice, the Law and the Future, Sanremo, 4 - 6 September 2014. Article by Laurent Gisel, legal …
Generating respect for the law: The need for persistence and imagination
… such training. One clear challenge is counterterrorism regulations, which ‘curtail the work … sanctions being actively imposed, counterterrorism legislation without sufficient … implications of Australian counterterrorism legislation’, in International …
International expert meeting report: The principle of proportionality
This report provides an account of the debates that took place during a meeting of international experts co-organized by the ICRC and Université Laval (Quebec) in June 2016 in Quebec. The subject …
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