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Interview with Eirini Giorgou

Legal Adviser, ICRC Arms and Conduct of Hostilities Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2022

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Abstract

Dr Eirini Giorgou is a Legal Adviser in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Arms and Conduct of Hostilities Unit, where she works, among other issues, on explosive weapons in populated areas and on nuclear weapons. She has several years’ experience in multilateral disarmament and arms control diplomacy and negotiations outside the ICRC. She is a licensed lawyer and holds a PhD in international law from the University of Geneva.

Keywords

explosive weaponsinternational humanitarian law (IHL)urban warfareprotection of civilianspolitical declarationsoft law
Type
Interview
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 104 , Issue 920-921: How International Humanitarian Law Develops , August 2022 , pp. 1571 - 1585
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the ICRC

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Footnotes

This interview was conducted by Jillian Rafferty, Managing Editor of the Review, in September 2022.

References

1 ICRC, Explosive Weapons with Wide Area Effects: A Deadly Choice in Populated Areas, Geneva, January 2022, available at: www.icrc.org/en/download/file/229018/ewipa_explosive_weapons_with_wide_area_effect_final.pdf (all internet references were accessed in September 2022).

2 ICRC, International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, report prepared for the 31st International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 2011, pp. 40–42Google Scholar; ICRC, International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, report prepared for the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 2015, pp. 47–53Google Scholar; ICRC, International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, report prepared for the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 2019, p. 13Google Scholar; Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Resolution 7 of the 2013 Council of Delegates, “Weapons and International Humanitarian Law”, CD/13/R7, 17–18 November 2013, para. 4.

3 ICRC, above note 1.

4 Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, “Protecting Civilians in Urban Warfare”, available at: www.dfa.ie/our-role-policies/international-priorities/peace-and-security/ewipa-consultations/#main-content.

5 Political Declaration on Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences arising from the use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas, 17 June 2022 (EWIPA Declaration), available at: www.dfa.ie/media/dfa/ourrolepolicies/peaceandsecurity/ewipa/EWIPA-Political-Declaration-Final-Rev-25052022.pdf.

6 ICRC, “Political Declaration on Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences arising from the use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas: Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross Delivered by Laurent Gisel, Head of the Arms and Conduct of Hostilities Unit at the Legal Division on Friday, 17 June 2022”, Geneva, 21 June 2022, available at: www.icrc.org/en/document/political-declaration-on-explosive-weapons.

7 EWIPA Declaration, above note 5, para. 3.3 (emphasis added).

8 See the article by Cordula Droege and Eirini Giorgou in this issue of the Review.