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Strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law: The work of the ICRC and the Swiss government (2015-2019)

… and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism;82 o The Special Rapporteur on … 2013). 82 See http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Terrorism/Pages/SRTerrorismIndex.aspx. 83 See …

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Kenya, Djibouti, Tanzania: Newsletter 2023

… on those detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. All operational activities are …

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Guiding Principles for the Domestic Implementation of a Comprehensive System of Protection for Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups

Guiding principles intended to support States in the implementation of a system of protection for children recruited by armed forces or armed groups. ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN …

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Colombia: Humanitarian situation and ICRC activities

  Colombia annual report  , activities 2013 and outlook 2014 (PDF) The hope of being able to turn the page and leave behind a conflict spanning five decades contrasted with the reality facing the …

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Report: Urban services during protracted armed conflict

… presents a moral dilemma for those fighting terrorism. China stressed that the principles …

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Autonomous weapon systems technical, military, legal and humanitarian aspects

… to victory in war, counter-insurgency or anti-terrorism activities. US military asymmetric … possibly encourage retaliation, reprisals and terrorism.”239 235 See above Part B (section …

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Guiding Principles / Model Law on the Missing

… 5 rev.1 corr. (22 October 2002) “Report on Terrorism and Human Rights”, paras. 304 & 305. …

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Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems

… include the relationship between gender and terrorism. She wrote her bachelor’s thesis on …

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Explosive weapons in populated areas: Technical considerations relevant to their use and effects

… Armed Services Committee: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and …

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Strengthening Compliance with IHL – Second Meeting of States on Strengthening Compliance with IHL, June 2013

… debates on the relationship between IHL and terrorism, the applicability of IHL to …

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International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.

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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.