Bringing IHL Home: Guidelines on the National Implementation of International Humanitarian Law
… potential gaps and overlaps. Example: Turkey In September 2020, the Istanbul Center …
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ICRC leads discussion on the management of scarce water resources during protracted armed conflict
… study in Kenya, Ethiopia, Greece, and Turkey”, Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and …
Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Life after displacement
… live in tents. Ilham was a student in Turkey when his family had to leave their home …
Iraq: Life in Mosul through a child’s eyes
… capital of Nineveh province, lies close to Turkey and Syria and was once one of the most …
Information kit: Development of national legislation to implement the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines
… accession) Date of Relevant Report Submission Turkey (25 September 2003) April 2011 no …
Incapacitating chemical agents: Law enforcement, human rights law and policy perspectives
… One example is the case of Güleç v. Turkey which concerned an illegal and violent … example is the case of Erdogan and Others v. Turkey where no instructions seem to have been … 1990, Principle 10. ECtHR, Güleç v. Turkey, Judgment 27 July 1998, § 71. 12 …
“That never happens here”: Sexual and gender-based violence against men, boys, LGBTIQ+ people
… and European Court of Human Rights, Aydin v Turkey, case 57/1996/676/866, 25 September …
Protection in the Movement
… Nigeria, Norway, South Sudan, Sweden and Turkey. Since 2018, several strategic and …
DR Congo: Our action in 2021
… have no particular political significance. Turkey Zambia Syrian Arab Republic U.K. of …
Syria remains in crisis – the world, and donors, must not turn away now
… who have fled from violence in Syria. In Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, National Red …
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