Deaths and separations in migration: lessons from migrant women and children

January 22, 2026 11 mins read Access / Analysis / Children in conflict / Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / IHL / Migration / Sexual Violence Magdalena Arias Cubas, Sanjana Bhardwaj & Simon Robins

Many women and children are exposed to violence, exploitation and other risks, including death and ...

Sexual and gender-based violence in migration contexts: does faith sensitivity matter?

September 21, 2023 20 mins read Analysis / Gender and conflict / Migration / Religion / Sexual Violence Sandra Iman Pertek, Ahmed Al-Dawoody & Amjad Saleem

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is tragically widespread along migration journeys, especially when these take ...

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 ...

Displaced in cities: Who are the hosts?

February 12, 2019 11 mins read Humanitarian Action / Migration Zoë Jordan

The recent ICRC report, Displaced in Cities, shines a much-needed light on experiences of hosting IDPs in urban centres. This is an increasing ...

Joint Blog Series: Better safe than sorry: Transferring detainees safely to Coalition Partners

January 20, 2019 3 mins read Detention / Joint Blog Series / Law and Conflict / Migration / Torture Tilman Rodenhäuser

Over the weekend, the third post in our Joint Series was published by Lawfare—Better safe than sorry: Transferring ...

IHL & the protection of migrants caught in armed conflict

June 4, 2018 11 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / Migration Helen Obregón Gieseken & Éloïse Ouellet-Décoste

In the wake of the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, this year marks the final phase of the process leading ...

Just out! New issue of the Review on migration and displacement

May 9, 2018 12 mins read Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Migration / The most read blog posts in 2018 Jovana Kuzmanovic & Vincent Bernard

This edition of the International Review of the Red Cross (the Review) explores complex and ...

The principle of non-refoulement in the migration context: 5 key points

March 30, 2018 10 mins read Detention / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Migration / The most read blog posts in 2018 / Torture Tilman Rodenhäuser

The current discussions on the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees ...

Gustave Ador, the ICRC, and leadership on refugee and migration policy

January 30, 2018 9 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Migration Claudena M. Skran

Recent arrivals of thousands of forced migrants in Europe have prompted reconsideration of international responses to refugee movements of the early twentieth century. ...

Direct cash grants to refugees: The EU experience in Turkey one year on

November 7, 2017 11 mins read Humanitarian Action / Migration Solon Ardittis

In November 2016, under the EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey, the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) launched the Emergency Social Safety ...

Refugees, migrants, IDPs: Protecting people on the move—without distinction

October 9, 2017 10 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Migration / Sexual Violence Sir Michael Aaronson

‘It is not the movement of persons that is the problem, it is the movement ...

European ‘migrant crisis’: Avoiding another wave of refugees living in limbo

June 23, 2016 7 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Migration Pavle Kilibarda

That the brutal excesses of the conflict in Syria, well into its sixth year, have proven capable of causing one of the greatest ...