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It is very clear from the text of the Geneva Conventions that families have the right to know about the whereabouts of their missing and that belligerents have a duty to inform families if they have indication and if they are detaining people.

~Peter Maurer

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The discourse of sovereignty is a relative one when a crisis has become a global crisis.

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There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions.

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We still have a strong commitment to our original mission, which is to protect and assist people who are suffering from the impact of violence, but the violence has changed its character, format, and pattern so that we are now responding year after year.

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Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.

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While conflicts have expanded and deepened and transformed, actors have transformed, and humanitarian assistance is transforming. Protection work is transforming and taking on another character.

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What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?

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You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and children.

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You treat detainees humanely because you know the other side will also treat detainees humanely.

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It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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