The vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mr Olivier Vodoz, and the commander of the Swiss armed forces, Lt-Gen Christophe Keckeis, are opening a workshop on international humanitarian law in Geneva today...The ICRC vice-president insisted on the fact that “all parties to a conflict – whether they be government armed forces, non-State armed groups, security forces, police forces, gendarmeries or private military companies – are obliged to refrain from harming either the physical and mental well-being of civilians or civilian property.”