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Radio Free Europe - http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-civilian-deaths-fighting/25474355.html
UKRAINE - CIVILIAN CASUALTIES MOUNT
- WOMEN & CHILDREN
By Glenn Kates - July 29, 2014
The war in Ukraine's
east has had its share of horrific images, but one recently stood out for its
poetic cruelty. A young mother in jeans shorts and a tanktop lay splayed on the
grass with her leg obliterated -- dead, she continued to cling to her lifeless
infant ........
Photo - Oleg Zheliabin-Nezhinskiy
Via Radio Free Europe
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PROTECTION OF WOMEN & CHILDREN
CIVILIANS IN WAR & CONFLICT
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Convention
(IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12
August 1949.
UN
Member State Ratifications have made the Geneva Conventions universally
applicable.
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WOMEN, PEACE & SECURITY UN
SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
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