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“The contamination from nuclear test explosions is in every one of our bodies”

“The contamination from nuclear test explosions is in every one of our bodies”

October 20, 2016 9 mins read Humanitarian Action / Review-related / Weapons Prof. Tilman Ruff, founding chair of ICAN

Selected passages from Professor Tilman Ruff’s speech, delivered at the Australian launch of The human cost of nuclear weapons, Melbourne, 10 October 2016. ...

e-Briefing: The human cost of nuclear weapons

e-Briefing: The human cost of nuclear weapons

October 12, 2016 5 mins read Humanitarian Action / Online publications / Quick Links / Sexual Violence The editors

The ICRC’s latest e-briefing exposes the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. It is being ...

Nuclear weapons: Rising in defence of humanity

Nuclear weapons: Rising in defence of humanity

July 27, 2016 8 mins read Law and Conflict / Online publications Ellen Policinski & Vincent Bernard

Approximately 340,000 people died immediately and within the five years following the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and ...

Resisting the politicization of humanitarian action in the post-Cold War era

Resisting the politicization of humanitarian action in the post-Cold War era

June 14, 2016 5 mins read Events and highlights / Interviews / Law and Conflict / Videos The editors

For Fyodor Lukyanov, the triumph of one political system at the end of the Cold ...

Exhibition shines light on ICRC’s efforts to generate respect for the law

Exhibition shines light on ICRC’s efforts to generate respect for the law

April 9, 2016 2 mins read Events and highlights / Law and Conflict

On 22 March 2016, the ICRC launched a new exhibition at the Humanitarium, offering a unique insight into the organization’s longstanding efforts to generate ...