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Following several meetings, Geneva Call held its first training sessions on international humanitarian law (IHL) for fighters, officers and members of the Iraqi Shia armed actor, the Popular Mobilization Units – Saraya Ashura. The first meeting took place on 27 February 2016 in Baghdad. As many of the 29 participants were officers involved in the planning […]

On 10 March 2016, Geneva Call and the National University of Colombia’s Observatory for Peace and Conflict co-organized an event entitled “Gender and Peace Processes: challenges and recommendations for participation and a return to civilian life.” The coming weeks will be decisive for the Colombian peace processes. It is, therefore, the right time to bring […]

On 28 February 2016, Geneva Call and the Middle East Research Institute (MERI) organized a meeting with high-level Kurdish political leaders and Peshmerga commanders on compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL), in Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Peshmerga forces are fighting on a daily basis, and although they have strict internal regulations on […]

On 1 March, one week before International Women’s Day, the Kurdistan Women’s Communities (KJK), the women’s branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), signed Geneva Call’s Deed of Commitment prohibiting sexual violence in armed conflict and against gender discrimination. Jiyan Lava, Coordination Member in the Kurdish region of Iraq, signed this commitment on behalf of […]