Sri Lanka: South Asia meet in Colombo on IHL
The South Asia Teaching Session on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) was held in Colombo on 3-8 July 2017. The seminar saw more than 40 participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, …
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Sri Lanka: Waiting for answers
Between July and September 2017, we started conducting lectures on ambiguous loss for students and professionals in the fields of psychology and counselling to raise awareness of it, with the aim of …
KSA: ICRC oversees repatriation of 27 Yemeni minors
Upon a request from Saudi authorities and the Arab Coalition, an ICRC team oversaw and helped in the repatriation of 27 Yemeni children aged between 8 and 17, as part of the ICRC’s neutral …
Armenia: A day in the life of a school on the border
Before the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the 1990s, this school in Tavush Region of Armenia had 800 students. Now there are only 200. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC /Gohar Hakobyan Arthur Bejanyan studied in this …
Sarajevo: Seminar on the interplay between international humanitarian law and Islamic Law
On 20 December 2017, the ICRC organized a joint seminar on the interplay between International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Islamic Law, in collaboration with the Faculty of Islamic Studies (FIS) of …
The ICRC at Davos: Tech partnerships, augmented reality and the cruelty of war
22-01-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss pressing humanitarian issues in an …
India’s Expertise and Influence Essential to Address Challenges of Autonomous Weapons
Dr Hugo Slim, Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy at the ICRC, visited New Delhi this week to speak at the Raisina Dialogue organised by the Ministry of External Affairs of India and the …
Mongolia: IHL training course for east Asia countries
A three-day training course on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) aiming at boosting the regional coordination in humanitarian response was jointly organized by the International Committee of the …
International Humanitarian Law
An overview of international humanitarian law, in A2 poster format, presenting the key principles and articles of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional …
Planting hope: In Panama, a vivarium is helping reforest the lives of prison inmates
The vivarium started production in November 2016, with the approval of the penitentiary system authorities and the police, who are now sponsors of the initiative. It also receives support from the …
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