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WeC Recruitment Postcard (WeC Medical Specialists)

… (EOD) Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Hazards/Hazardous Materials …

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WeC Recruitment Postcard (CBRN and HAZMAT Specialists)

… (EOD) Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Hazards/Hazardous Materials …

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WeC Recruitment Postcard (EOD Specialists)

… (EOD) Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Hazards/Hazardous Materials …

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WeC Recruitment leaflet

… (EOD) Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Hazards/Hazardous Materials …

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WeC Recruitment Pamphlet

… (EOD) Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Hazards/Hazardous Materials …

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ICRC at the UN: Urban warfare, digital threats and prisoners of war obligations are all humanitarian issues of high importance

… 1/ Urban warfare, including Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas The urbanization of … of civilians from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, one of the major … critical civilian infrastructure, such as nuclear plants, electricity grids and water …

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“Lest the ghosts of Guernica keep haunting us…”

… one war too late. Today, even the threat of a nuclear war, and the total destruction of … towards achieving the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons suddenly seems to have become a race …

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“It’s time to elevate the laws of war to a political priority”

… declaration to limit the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.   Over this short … conflict almost as if they were inevitable. Nuclear weapons continue to threaten all of … we also know that the impacts of any use of nuclear weapons would be widespread and cause …

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ICRC and World Bank partner to support violence-affected communities in Myanmar

… List                  Weapons, including but not limited to mines, … to contamination from both conventional weapons (ERW, landmines, IEDs, etc) and … (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear – CBRN). There are a variety of …

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In these times of heightened international tension, shared humanitarian values must be the common ground for states to move forward

… to highlight the humanitarian consequences of weapons. Mitigating and preventing the adverse … framework is most urgent, it is that of nuclear weapons . There are currently over 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world; a number which, …

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