Colombia: Humanitarian Report 2024
The civilian population continues to bear the brunt of the war. We wish that the figures we report here for humanitarian consequences belonged to the distant past. However, these figures reflect the …
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Information kit: Development of national legislation to implement the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines
… process to adopt the 12 UN Conventions on terrorism." International Committee of the Red … 24 June 2002 • Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism Act 2002 "The Act is not specific to …
Frequently Asked Questions on International Humanitarian, Human Rights and Refugee Law in the context of armed conflict
The United Nations' Inter-Agency Standing Committee, a coordination group for humanitarian agencies, has produced a basic fact-file on legal aspects of aid work during conflicts. Two dozen concise …
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 …
Bringing IHL Home: Guidelines on the National Implementation of International Humanitarian Law
… overlaps and contradictions between IHL and terrorism in domestic law and the impact that … and at the specialized judicial centre for terrorism and transnational organized crime. …
Annual Report 2021
… the international school for counter-terrorism and the ICRC briefed over 100 … 17 countries, on the applicability of IHL to “terrorism”. The ICRC provided National … individually: people held on charges of “terrorism”, or in connection with the conflict …
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 …
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 …
Malaysia: 17th national IHL moot court competition 2020
… a strong statement, condemning the “act of terrorism” on 15 January, and calling it …
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