Klaartje Docters van Leeuwen
Manager Strategy, Diplomacy and Evidence
Organisation
Netherlands Red Cross
Other
Speaker session
Putting IHL at the heart of external action: Ensuring accountability
Aquarium
Building on the first European Humanitarian Forum, as well as on the UNGA high-level event on accountability for sexual violence and other violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), this session continues the discussion on the means to improve monitoring of violations against IHL.
The session will discuss how the EU ensures that IHL is at the heart of its external action, and how EU Member States best can promote IHL. In addition, the session will evaluate how the ICC as well as preventive measures supported under ECHO’s Programmatic Partnership with the ICRC can promote IHL compliance in the current global context.
Knut Doermann
Head of Delegation to the EU, NATO and the Kingdom of Belgium
Biography
Dr. Knut Dörmann is Head of Delegation to the EU, NATO and the Kingdom of Belgium, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) since June 2020.
Previously he had been ICRC's Head of the Legal Division and Chief Legal Officer since December 2007, Deputy Head of the Legal Division between June 2004 and November 2007 and Legal Adviser at the Legal Division between December 1998 and May 2004 (in charge of among others the law applicable to the conduct of hostility, cyber warfare, the protection of the environment, international criminal law).
He holds a Doctor of Laws (Dr. jur.) from the University of Bochum in Germany (2001). He was Managing Editor of Humanitäres Völkerrecht - Informationsschriften (1991-1997). Prior to joining the ICRC, he was Research Assistant (1988-1993) and Research Associate (1993- 1997) at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, University of Bochum.
Dr. Dörmann has been a member of several groups of experts working on the current challenges of international humanitarian law. He has extensively presented and published on international humanitarian law, international law of peace and international criminal law.
He received the 2005 Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law for his book Elements of War Crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, published by Cambridge University Press.
Organisation
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International organisation
Speaker session
Putting IHL at the heart of external action: Ensuring accountability
Aquarium
Building on the first European Humanitarian Forum, as well as on the UNGA high-level event on accountability for sexual violence and other violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), this session continues the discussion on the means to improve monitoring of violations against IHL.
The session will discuss how the EU ensures that IHL is at the heart of its external action, and how EU Member States best can promote IHL. In addition, the session will evaluate how the ICC as well as preventive measures supported under ECHO’s Programmatic Partnership with the ICRC can promote IHL compliance in the current global context.
Kedar Mankad
Senior Program Officer
Organisation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
NGO
Speaker session
Putting IHL at the heart of external action: Ensuring accountability
Aquarium
Building on the first European Humanitarian Forum, as well as on the UNGA high-level event on accountability for sexual violence and other violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), this session continues the discussion on the means to improve monitoring of violations against IHL.
The session will discuss how the EU ensures that IHL is at the heart of its external action, and how EU Member States best can promote IHL. In addition, the session will evaluate how the ICC as well as preventive measures supported under ECHO’s Programmatic Partnership with the ICRC can promote IHL compliance in the current global context.