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The Philippines: first meetings with communities affected by armed hostilities in Marawi
Geneva Call staff recently travelled to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to assess the situation and evaluate the possibilities of working towards increased protection for civilians. The organization’s representatives met with people who had suffered from the recent armed operations in Marawi, the largest Muslim city in a predominantly Catholic nation. In 2017, […]
Iraq: training the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Human Rights Monitoring Unit on the law of armed conflict
Geneva Call, in collaboration with the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) High Committee to Evaluate and Respond to International Reports (HCERIR), organized two workshops on international humanitarian law (IHL) for the Committee’s members and senior focal points from several KRG ministries—Interior, Foreign Affairs, Education, and Health—and media officials from the Prime Minister’s office. Altogether, 31 participants […]
New study: education in conflict zones: perspectives of armed non-State actors
On 5 December 2017, Geneva Call released a report entitled “Armed non-State actors share their policies and practice with regards to education in armed conflict”. This study identifies both the negative and positive practices of armed non-State actors (ANSAs): when they have openly recognized their attacks on education and when, on the contrary, they have […]
Yemen: first workshop for women from civil society on the law of armed conflict
From 8 to 12 October 2017, Geneva Call organized a three-day training session on the law of armed conflict and a two-day thematic workshop on child protection, the ban on anti-personnel mines and the prohibition of sexual violence in armed conflict. The event took place in Amman, in Jordan, and gathered 17 women representing 16 […]