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Messaging apps: an untapped humanitarian resource

… Viber voice messages sent to a relative in Turkey, after crossing the sea in a dinghy from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece. … after crossing the sea in a dinghy from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece …

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Making better use of data on attacks against health care

… Professionals in the 2013 Gezi Protests in Turkey 2016 Preeti Patel et al, King’s College … at the World Humanitarian Summit, Istanbul, Turkey ICRC 2013 ICRC Violent Incidents … Afghanistan, and India. Eastern Europe: Turkey, Georgia, and Former Yugoslavia. South …

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Recent developments of the interplay between IHL and IHRL

… Belgium and 16 Other States ECHR, Cyprus v. Turkey ECHR, Hassan v. UK Gaza: Health …

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The Interplay between IHL and IHRL

… Belgium and 16 Other States ECHR, Cyprus v. Turkey ECHR, Hassan v. UK Gaza: Health …

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Tragedy at Evros: A perilous river crossing to Greece

… river traces the 150-kilometre border between Turkey and Greece before emptying out into the … migrants are waiting to cross Evros from Turkey, a crossing unintentionally made more … popular after a European Union agreement with Turkey to curb new arrivals to Greece's …

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Greece snapshot: January–August 2017

… Some 18,000 migrants have crossed from Turkey into the Aegean islands since the … Greece Some 18,000 migrants have crossed from Turkey into the Aegean islands since the … action in Greece dates back to the Turkey-Greece conflict in 1919-1923. Since …

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Amnesties and IHL: Purpose and Scope

… against humanity. 14 In Abdülsamet Yaman v. Turkey (2004), the ECHR highlighted that where … and Peoples’ Rights; and ii) in Yeter v. Turkey (2009), the ECHR reaffirmed that when …

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Council of Delegates 2017

… take place from 10 to 11 November 2017 in Turkey. It will gather 190 Red Cross and Red …

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Global gathering to shape future of world’s largest humanitarian movement

… Movement will gather next week in Antalya, Turkey, for a series of meetings that will … Kaya Palazzo Convention Centre in Antalya, Turkey. For journalists interested in …

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Shaping the future of the world’s largest humanitarian movement

… action. The global meetings were held in Turkey – a country surrounded by some of the …

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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.

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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.