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Over the past year, the conflict in Libya has taken an unprecedentedly heavy toll on the civilian population, with distressing levels of violence since the battle over Tripoli in April 2019. Even though International Humanitarian Law (IHL) must be respected by all parties to the conflict, violations such as indiscriminate attacks, targeting of civilians and medical facilities, torture and […]

The crisis in Syria is now into its 9th year and the situation is alarming: use of children in hostilities by all sides of the conflict is regularly reported, many children have been killed, and almost all armed non-State actors (ANSAs) involved in the conflict have recruited children from both local and refugee/internally displaced communities.  As […]

The crisis in Syria is now into its 9th year and the situation is alarming: anti-personal mines are widely used by many actors across the country, including armed non-State actors (ANSAs), mostly in the areas that have been captured from Syrian government forces. Civilians bear the brunt of those practices. As part of a video […]

On 12 December 2019, in collaboration with the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva Call held a side-event on armed non-State actors (ANSA) and international humanitarian law (IHL) on the fringes of the 33th International conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva. The event, moderated by Verity Robson, […]