www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Published online March 21, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)00070-X 1 denounce unlawful behaviour, engage with armed groups and affected populations to encourage compliance with the Geneva Conventions, and reconfirm the legitimacy of international humanitarian law. By doing so, the sanctity of humanitarian action can be upheld and human itarian actors and ...

This document specifies an extension to the identifiers to be used in the Transport Profile of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS-TP). Identifiers that follow IP/MPLS conventions have already been defined. This memo augments that set of identifiers for MPLS-TP management and Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) functions to include identifier information in a format typically used...

The authors make a valiant effort at extracting additional information about the properties of aerosol from measurements with optical particle counters (OPC), in particular the PCASP and the FSSP-300. In the end, the results are convincing and they have done a very nice job of constraining the uncertainties. The style of writing, however, is at times obtuse and difficult to understand. Examples...

This paper studies a new coordination game, the Language Game, of a large but finite population. The population is partitioned into two groups of identical agents. Each player shares a common two-action strategy set and interacts pairwise with everyone else. Both symmetric profiles are pareto-efficient strict equilibria, but the groups rank them differently. The profile where successful coordin...

Laws and legislation significantly influence actions in societies to control rates of gender-based violence (GBV). Most domestic laws are developed from international declarations conventions. This paper reviews declarations, policies, enacted at levels ratified national mitigate GBV a neutral perspective. countries ratify conventions levels. However, the majority these directed towards women a...

With the rapid growth of Sino-European international trade and ongoing development “One Belt And One Road”, it can be predicted that status railway transportation in logistics system will greatly enhanced, which urges us to further study rules freight transportation. At present, pattern transport by is two conventions cargo association contract. In addition, existing China also has some problem...

International treaties governing transboundary hazardous waste are a result of the theory sustainable development. These conventions have developed over several decades but still lack authority one biggest exporters: United States. As forever chemicals like GenX become spotlight for future regulation, can these project framework to apply currently unregulated chemical that predominantly travels...

The main international standards for the protection and observance of rights prisoners war legal acts that regulate them were considered. It was revealed regulating include: Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol to Statute International Committee Red Cross, UN Resolution on Protection Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism, Art. 3 Universal Declaration Rights, Convention against Torture other acts...

The paper examines the contribution of International Committee Red Cross to development and implementation international humanitarian law. It was established that today Organization plays an important role not only in providing assistance persons who are armed conflicts conflict situations, but also norms law exist today. emphasized it ICRC conducted intensive preparatory work for Geneva Conven...