People power in humanitarian action

February 20, 2020 15 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles Hugo Slim

The principle of “putting people at the centre” of humanitarian action rightly dominates humanitarian policy ...

The future is now: time to scale up climate mitigation and adaptation measures

February 6, 2020 8 mins read Analysis / Climate change, conflict and humanitarian action / Humanitarian Action / Sexual Violence Cécile Aptel

Far from a distant threat, climate change is already a crisis, contributing to extreme weather ...

A New Year’s resolution: bringing IHL home

January 21, 2020 8 mins read Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Eva Svoboda

As the old year bids farewell and the new year takes shape, we tend to ...

Hacking humanitarians: moving towards a humanitarian cybersecurity strategy

January 16, 2020 10 mins read Analysis / Human Costs of Cyber / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Massimo Marelli

As humanitarian organizations become more active in and reliant upon new technologies and the digital ...

Reflections of a humanitarian bureaucrat

January 9, 2020 14 mins read Accountability / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Stories Hugo Slim

Last week, the incoming Director-General of the ICRC stressed the importance of reducing bureaucracy in ...

What Child is This? A Refugee Child.

December 23, 2019 12 mins read Humanitarian Action / Migration / Stories Charlie Martel

As we draw 2019 to a close, we reflect upon another year wherein millions of people were forced to flee their homes because ...

50 steps to a mine-free world by 2025

December 19, 2019 7 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Landmines and the Law / Weapons Ambassador Hans Brattskar

Renewed political commitment to implementing the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) and an ambitious action ...

Memory and war: does time really heal?

December 17, 2019 6 mins read History / Humanitarian Action / Identity / Review-related Kvitoslava Krotiuk

Commemorating the centenary of the first Remembrance Day, dedicated to remembering members of the armed forces who have died in the line of ...

Three reasons why education needs the support of humanitarian actors in conflict zones

December 12, 2019 11 mins read Analysis / Children in conflict / Education in Armed Conflict / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Protracted Conflict Filipa Schmitz Guinote

This week, the ICRC and the IFRC held a side event on education at the ...

When rain turns to dust: climate change, conflict and humanitarian action

December 5, 2019 7 mins read Analysis / Call for contributions / Climate change, conflict and humanitarian action / Humanitarian Action Catherine-Lune Grayson

Earlier this week the 25th UN Climate Conference, known as COP25, opened in Madrid, Spain ...

The other side of trust

November 26, 2019 6 mins read Accountability / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles Marc DuBois

In the run up its 33rd International Conference, we find that the International Red Cross ...

Children and war: upcoming Review edition

November 19, 2019 6 mins read Call for papers / Children in conflict / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence / Special Protections Ellen Policinski

The International Review of the Red Cross has an upcoming edition on Children and war due ...