GCIII Commentary: I’m a woman and a POW in a pandemic. What does the Third Geneva Convention mean for me?

December 8, 2020 11 mins read Analysis / GCIII Commentary / Gender and conflict / Generating Respect for IHL / Health Care / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Heleen Hiemstra & Vanessa Murphy

While a woman’s experience in a prisoners of war (POW) camp may not differ drastically ...

Who’s your favorite female judge?

March 9, 2020 2 mins read Gender / Law and Conflict Helen Durham

Many years ago when I was co-writing a book on Women and War, I decided that having a female judge write the foreward ...

Beyond binaries: An intersectional approach to humanitarian action

October 8, 2019 12 mins read Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Identity Elizabeth McGuinness & Saman Rejali

Where does a lens on ‘men and masculinities’ fit into the frame of humanitarian action? ...

Challenging patriarchy: gender equality and humanitarian principles

July 18, 2019 12 mins read Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / The most read blog posts in 2019 Ricardo Fal-Dutra Santos

This blog seeks to explore the ongoing discourse in the humanitarian sector that portrays gender ...

Masculinity and humanitarianism

May 20, 2019 9 mins read Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Identity Graham Parsons

As I write, a boy, no older than 2, is bouncing around the café, laughing ...

The masculine condition in contemporary warfare

May 14, 2019 12 mins read Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Identity Gilbert Holleufer

Hugo Slim, in a piece entitled Masculinity and war—let’s talk about it, puts his finger ...

100 ratifications of the Arms Trade Treaty: Celebration and reflection

February 7, 2019 5 mins read Law and Conflict / Weapons Helen Durham

As Director of International Law and Policy, I have the privilege of regularly representing the ICRC at the United Nations and other diplomatic ...

The impact of gender and race bias in AI

August 28, 2018 12 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Gender / Gender and conflict / Law and Conflict / Weapons Noel Sharkey

Automated decision algorithms are currently propagating gender and race discrimination throughout our global community. The ...

Continuing the conversation: Which masculinities, which wars?

July 5, 2018 7 mins read Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Identity David Duriesmith

Earlier this year Hugo Slim penned a blog post with the important call to begin ...

Masculinity and war–let’s talk about it

March 15, 2018 4 mins read Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Identity / The most read blog posts in 2018 Hugo Slim

There is much talk about violations, cruelty and brutality in the public discussion of war, ...

e-Briefing: Sexual violence in armed conflict

April 8, 2016 1 min read Gender and conflict / Online publications

This e-briefing is based on the issue 894 of the International Review of the Red Cross on “Sexual violence in armed conflict”. It ...