The principle of non-refoulement under Islamic law and international law: complementing international legal protection in Muslim contexts

June 20, 2021 11 mins read Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / History / Humanitarian Action / Islamic Law / Law and Conflict / Religion Ahmed Al-Dawoody & Tilman Rodenhäuser

As we mark World Refugee Day this year, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ...

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 ...

Are we living through the worst period in history?

February 15, 2017 10 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Review-related / Sexual Violence Vincent Bernard

Vincent Bernard is the editor in chief of the International Review of the Red Cross. ...

ICRC report demonstrates people believe that wars should have limits

December 5, 2016 5 mins read Online publications Helen Durham

The ICRC has published the results of a large survey detailing how people around the world perceive a range of issues relating to ...

Clarifying the fate of missing persons

September 15, 2016 14 mins read Events and highlights / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Raphaël Dallaire Ferland

How does looking at prisons’ laundry receipts or funeral documents help finding those who have ...

Launch of the ICRC handbook on IHL

September 13, 2016 7 mins read Events and highlights / Law and Conflict Dr Nils Melzer, Human Rights Chair, Geneva Academy

Speech given by Dr Nils Melzer, author of International Humanitarian Law – a Comprehensive Introduction, at the International Institute for Humanitarian Law, Sanremo, ...

Humanitarianism at breaking point? New roles for local and international actors

August 19, 2016 13 mins read Humanitarian Action / Review-related Claudia McGoldrick

Is humanitarianism really at breaking point? The gap between today’s overwhelming needs and the constraints on international humanitarian actors’ efforts to address them, ...

Remember the millions of people living in urban violence

July 4, 2016 6 mins read Videos Hugo Slim

With all eyes on the upcoming Habitat 3 Conference in Quito, Ecuador, and the New Urban Agenda which will be adopted there, the ...

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 ...

Red Cross Red Crescent leaders ask governments to review migration policies

June 15, 2016 8 mins read World Humanitarian Summit Raphaël Dallaire Ferland

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement made a forthright plea for the safety and dignity of migrants at the World Humanitarian ...

Istanbul dispatch: A first look back at the World Humanitarian Summit

May 26, 2016 6 mins read World Humanitarian Summit Raphaël Dallaire Ferland

On the eve of the World Humanitarian Summit, Hugo Slim was reflecting on what failure and success would look like for the large-scale ...

Greater respect for the law will ease the suffering of forced displacement – ICRC President

May 23, 2016 1 min read Events and highlights / Videos / World Humanitarian Summit The editors

On 23 May 2016 at the World Humanitarian Summit, ICRC President Peter Maurer addressed the high-level roundtable “Leaving no one behind: A commitment ...