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20 Mar 2003, 10:42 am
[JURIST] Addressing a press conference in Geneva Thursday morning, International Committee of the Red Cross [official website] President Jakob Kellenberger appealed to the belligerents in Iraq to respect international humanitarian law and to protect the civilian population. [read post]
10 Oct 2003, 4:44 am
The International Committee of the Red Cross had previously outlined some of its concerns about the camp in August, before the [read post]
31 Mar 2003, 10:27 am
[JURIST] The International Committee of the Red Cross [official website] announced Monday that Red Cross delegates have begun visiting Iraqi prisoners of war captured by Coalition forces:During this first day, they visited all parts of the camp, located in southern Iraq, and registered an initial group of prisoners. [read post]
15 Feb 2005, 12:13 am
[JURIST] International Committee of the Red Cross [official website] president Jakob Kellenberger met with President Bush Monday to discuss ICRC concerns about detainees [ICRC press release] at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST Hot Topic archive]. [read post]
13 Jul 2004, 3:29 am
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday that it fears that US officials are holding terror suspects secretly, in violation of the Geneva Conventions, which require that the Red Cross be given access to prisoners of war and other detainees. [read post]
4 Apr 2005, 8:16 am
[JURIST] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [official website] has confirmed that prisoners at Camp Bucca [Wikipedia entry], a US-run detention camp in southern Iraq, rioted on April 1 despite an initial US military denial of any incident. [read post]
10 Dec 2005, 3:20 am
[JURIST] The US said Friday that it would not allow the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [official website] access to a limited number of detainees [JURIST news archive] who are held in secret locations around the world. [read post]
29 Mar 2018, 8:46 am
(LinkedIn.)Related post: Job Posting (2011); International Committee of the Red Cross Appoints Two New Ombuds [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 8:17 am
Sasha Volkov, of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has described the harrowing scene on the ground in the southern port city of Mariupol.The besieged city has been without water, electricity and internet service for days, as it faces near-constant bombardment by Russian troops who have it surrounded.Numerous attempts to evacuate civilians and bring supplies into Mariupol have failed. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 8:21 am
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) web site contains a section on international humanitarian law databases. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 5:02 pm
Knut Dörmann (International Committee of the Red Cross) will give a talk today at the University of Nottingham School of Law-International Law Association (British Branch) Regional Seminar Series on "Challenges to International Humanitarian Law in Contemporary Armed Conflicts. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 2:49 pm
The International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University Law School and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will convene the semi-annual Teaching International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Workshop on February 25-26, 2011, in Atlanta. [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 4:30 am
The International Committee of the Red Cross will host a two-day meeting of European Ombuds and medatiors at the Humanitarium Conference Center in Geneva on October 16 and 17. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 7:45 am
[JURIST] Detainees held in secret prisons operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] throughout the globe were subject to abuse and sleep deprivation, according to a confidential report prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [official website]. [read post]
11 Apr 2003, 9:53 am
Friday's bulletin from the International Committee of the Red Cross on the humanitarian situation in Iraq highlights the breakdown of law and order in Baghdad and its consequences for the delivery of medical services to the civilian population:The ICRC in Baghdad is extremely concerned about the anarchy and general chaos prevalent in the city. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 1:32 am
Cordula Droege, Legal Adviser, Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has posted a new essay, The Interplay between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in Situations of Armed Conflict. [read post]
12 Aug 2024, 3:05 pm
The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, said Monday that international humanitarian law (IHL) is “under strain” due to “noncompliance. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 1:20 pm
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recently launched a FREE online database on customary international humanitarian law (IHL). [read post]
28 Jul 2006, 10:15 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] slammed current US rights practices in a report [PDF text] released Friday, saying among other things that the US needs to close all alleged secret detention facilities and allow the International Committee of the Red Cross [advocacy website] access to all detainees held at the alleged prisons. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 2:01 pm
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Wednesday said that the surging violence in Colombia caused the internal displacement of people, forced restriction of movement, and injury or death of people by explosives to reach the highest level of the past five years. [read post]
