‘Virtual Communities’ of Social Media could be Lifelines in Crisis Response – Twitter’s Mahima Kaul 03/02/2016, Global / Health & Safety / Videos In times of an emergency or crisis situation, social media offers some of the fastest and most effective tools for getting critical life-saving ...
There is Need for a Genuine & Sustained Effort to End Suffering in Syria — Marianne Gasser 02/02/2016, Civilians / Global / Health & Safety / Operations The five-year old armed conflict in Syria has claimed 250,000 lives and caused 13 million ...
Enable Makeathon at its Zenith as Teams Gear up for Demo Day 22/01/2016, About Us / Events / Global / Videos Enable Makeathon – the ICRC’s flagship initiative to create next-gen affordable assistive devices for persons with disability – is now at its zenith ...
Syria: Key Operation Begins to Bring Aid to People in Besieged Areas 12/01/2016, Civilians / Global / Health & Safety Damascus / Geneva – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working alongside the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the United ...
Even War Must Have Limits 12/01/2016, Civilians / Commentaries / Global / International Humanitarian Law Dominik Stillhart, director of operations for the ICRC, in his recent op-ed for CNN, discusses ...
International Law and Armed Conflict in Dark Times: A Call for Engagement 07/01/2016, About Us / Global / International Humanitarian Law Naz K. Modirzadeh, Director of the Harvard Law School (HLS) Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, in an opinion piece for the ...