Report on pledge – IHL: DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT IMPACTS

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The set-out action plan in the pledge: 

“We, the Swedish Red Cross, pledge to undertake the following actions by the year 2023: 

• Promote and encourage dedicated research addressing how diverse women, men, girls and boys may be affected in different ways by the application or implementation of specific IHL obligations.  
• Disseminate and conduct trainings in IHL that consider how diverse women, men, girls and boys may be affected in different ways by the application or implementation of specific IHL obligations.” 

Actions taken: 

1. The Swedish Red Cross arranged, together with the ICRC and Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations an expert meeting the 13-14th October 2022. The theme for the meeting was “Understanding and Avoiding Gendered Harm from Military Operations during Armed Conflict”. 
   1. One purpose of the meeting was to gather information on how a gender perspective on humanitarian law can be understood and given importance in military operations.  
   2. The expert meeting resulted in a report that was launched in March 2024, a swedish translation of the summary is pubished on our webb site. . 
2. Our continuous work with peer review in the ICRC’s major project with new comments to the Geneva Conventions and their protocols. In this project the Swedish Red Cross continously contribute with a gender perspective on IHL.  
3. We continuously pay attention to IHL and gender in connection with lectures and work in international working groups etc. and regularly update our webb site on IHL and gender.
4. As far as this pledge is concerned, we currently have no direct interaction with other National Societies.  

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