The briefer provides an overview of the humanitarian consequences of conflict on essential services, explains the ICRC's ...

In 2022, from Africa to the Americas, Near and Middle East to Asia, the ICRC mapped 524 armed groups that are of humanitarian concern, with at least 175 million people estimated to live in areas fully ...

The ICRC has a clear and consistent public position towards all states when it comes to using explosive weapons in populated ...

A story published in The New Yorker includes excerpts of confidential ICRC correspondence that the publication says was ...

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The numerous rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) that seek to protect civilians, most prominently in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 (GCIV), give expression to the fundamental ...

“The international armed conflict has affected millions of Ukrainians in dramatic ways over the last four years,” said Mr. Krähenbühl. “Almost every family has endured the death of a loved one, injury ...

The Brussels delegation covers Belgium, the EU, NATO and other European armed forces. The delegation engages decision makers on issues related to protecting the access of neutral and impartial ...

Humans must maintain control over life-and-death decisions. This video shows the dangers of autonomous weapons – and what must be done to avert them. Increasingly, weapons that select and engage ...

Behind every statistic on displacement is a person who made a difficult choice about how to survive the hostilities: to shelter underground, to flee at the last possible moment, to carry a loved one ...

Professional Standards for Protection Work (third edition) constitutes a set of minimum but essential standards aimed at ensuring that protection work carried out by human rights and humanitarian ...

The use and misuse of the red cross, red crescent and red crystal emblems is clearly defined in law. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols contain several articles on the emblems.