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The European Award for Citizenship, Security and Defence was awarded to Geneva Call for its Fighter not Killer campaign at the Berlin Security Conference on 18 November 2015. This award honours Geneva Call’s efforts to develop and disseminate tools that promote international humanitarian norms in war-torn countries. Geneva Call has mainly used this campaign in […]

“We must strive to ensure respect for International Humanitarian Law by all parties to the conflict in Iraq, in an attempt to prevent or end violations. Otherwise, violence will worsen and feed the cycle of revenge and further killing.” As an introduction to this joint session that took place on 3 November in Erbil, Mr. […]

Geneva Call is launching a new programme engaging with the main armed groups operating in Iraq on the respect for humanitarian norms. War crimes and violations of humanitarian norms are widespread, and the civilian population is paying the highest toll, with an estimated 35,408 civilian casualties in 2014, according to the United Nations. As a […]

Wissam Al-Saliby regularly conducts training courses on humanitarian norms for commanders and fighters from armed groups in Syria and Lebanon. In March 2015, he led a training session on policing and human rights for 15 members of the security forces in Ain El Hilweh, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. This camp hosts around 80,000 […]