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 ...
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons one year on: Reflections from Hiroshima September 20, 2018 6 mins read Law and Conflict / Stories / Weapons Helen Durham Today marks one year since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was declared open for signature. Its adoption confirmed that a ...
Bombs & blast waves: Why children in conflict need special care September 13, 2018 9 mins read Analysis / Children in conflict / Humanitarian Action / Stories Paul Reavley I’ve deployed numerous times during my career in the military, and on every deployment, I ...
War on your doorstep: A visual journey through the everyday realities of urban warfare May 31, 2018 5 mins read Humanitarian Action / Stories Vincent Bernard In 2017 the ICRC unveiled ‘War in Cities / Villes en Guerre’—an exhibition on the catastrophic impact that urban warfare has on the ...
Dignity in death: Remembrance and the voice of the dead November 1, 2017 8 mins read Humanitarian Action / Religion / Stories Oran Finegan As the Day of the Dead is upon us, it gives me cause for reflection on what the dead have meant to me ...
The Novye Atagi hospital attack, 20 years later: A call to care for the carers December 15, 2016 10 mins read Humanitarian Action / Stories Christoph Hensch In this personal story told by a former head of office at the ICRC surgical hospital of Novye Atagi, Chechnya, a short, violent ...
An unwarranted human sacrifice in the Middle East September 26, 2016 12 mins read Counterterrorism / Law and Conflict / Religion / Stories Omar Mekky Earlier this month Muslims in the Middle East and across the world celebrated Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice. Those holy days honor ...
Life after the atomic bomb: Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors August 9, 2016 17 mins read Interviews / Online publications / Review-related / Stories The editors 71 years ago today, the second atomic bomb fell on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. ...
