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Discover Geneva Call’s monitor of armed non-State actors’ responses to the COVID-19 outbreak. The last few weeks have seen numerous conflict areas affected by the spread of the COVID-19. In these contexts, it has been unsurprising that several armed non-State actors (ANSAs) have adopted measures to contain the spread of the virus in the territories […]

While preventing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is at the forefront of most contemporary agendas, evaluating the level of understanding of prevention campaigns remains a challenge, especially where target audiences are constituted by millions of people. How can the impact of these campaigns and the resulting increased knowledge be assessed, particularly in remote and […]

Extract from page 129 of the EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy: « The EU also supported Geneva Call, an organisation that works to improve the protection of civilians in armed conflict and strengthen the respect for IHL by armed non-State actors. The EU supported its work in a number of contexts such […]

By Sandra Krähenmann, Geneva Call, and George Dvaladze, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights   Almost two decades ago, the first armed drone strikes in Afghanistan in October 2001 and in November 2002 in Yemen made headlines. From isolated newsworthy attacks, drone strikes have become a regular feature of military operations since […]