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Syria: top military commanders from eight Free Syrian Army brigades receive training on humanitarian norms in Geneva
From 16 to 19 December 2015, Geneva Call trained commanders from eight Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigades on humanitarian norms in Geneva. These brigades number an estimated 15,000 combatants and are active in northern Syria, including in Aleppo, Hama, Idlib and Latakia. Over three days, they participated in sessions on rules related to the conduct […]
A report from inside Syria: a visit to monitor the prohibition on the use of child soldiers in Kurdish areas
November 2015. For the sixth time since the Syrian Kurdish armed forces signed the Deed of Commitment protecting children in armed conflict, in 2014, a team from Geneva Call went to Syria to monitor the situation related to the use of child soldiers by those forces. Travel to Syria Our journey to Syria begins in […]
Más de 100 personas participaron en un encuentro sobre el desminado humanitario organizado por el Llamamiento de Ginebra y UNMAS en Bogotá
Los días 28 y 29 de enero del 2016 en Bogotá se llevó a cabo el encuentro “Desminado humanitario, procesos de paz y territorio”, organizado por el Llamamiento de Ginebra, ONG basada en Suiza y el Servicio de acción contra minas de las Naciones Unidas (UNMAS). “El objetivo de este encuentro era el intercambio de […]
Iraq: launch of the “Fighter not Killer” campaign to raise awareness of the law of war among civil society and armed non-State actors
“Be a fighter, not a killer.” That is the main message of the multi-media campaign launched by Geneva Call in Iraq. Over the next few weeks, Geneva Call’s video and radio messages on the law of war will be broadcast intensively on some Iraqi television and radio channels, including Sunni, Shia and Kurdish media. This […]