Visa Pour l'Image: Call for entries for the 2024 Humanitarian Visa d’or Award
… 75th anniversary of the adoption of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, of which the 4th …
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Extraterritorial targeting by means of armed drones: Some legal implications
… Committee of the Red Cross, based in Geneva. Abstract The use of “drones” has grown … Aspects, Report of Expert Meeting, Geneva, 26–28 March 2014, available at: … to Article 2 common to the four Geneva Conventions, these foundational IHL treaties …
Meeting of States on strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law
… 24-04-2015 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of … the fourth and final meeting of States in Geneva on 23-24 April 2015 as part of their … grounds. Its main sources are the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols as …
“Tell him we love him deeply”: Families of prisoners of war are desperate for answers
… that he is fine." Prisoners of war and the Geneva Conventions The 1949 Geneva Conventions —which all countries in the …
Strengthening international humanitarian law in Liberia
… on the integration and domestication of the Geneva Conventions, their Additional Protocols, and … on the integration and domestication of the Geneva Conventions, their Additional Protocols …
Weapons and disarmament
… and expanding bullets (1868 and 1899). The Geneva Protocol (1925) outlawed poisonous … by the Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions. The 1980 Convention on Certain …
Weapons: ICRC marks Ypres chlorine gas anniversary with WMD call
… 22-04-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of … The attack led to the creation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use of … please contact: Francis Markus, ICRC Geneva tel: +41 22 730 23 28 or +41 79 217 32 …
Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict
… by the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, the Statute of the International …
Generating respect for the law: The need for persistence and imagination
… organizing committee of the competition in Geneva in 1996 Coach in 1997 GENERATING … IMAGINATION* ‘One of the worst enemies of the Geneva Conventions is ignorance.’1 Jean Pictet …
The critical importance of neutrality: A humanitarian perspective into a multipolar world
… in meeting their obligations under the Geneva Conventions and – more broadly – under … or Colombia. Ratified by 196 states, the Geneva Conventions commit signatories not only …
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