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Introducing the first multi-blog series on the updated Geneva Conventions Commentaries

Introducing the first multi-blog series on the updated Geneva Conventions Commentaries

June 22, 2016 6 mins read ICRC Commentaries / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Humanitarian Law & Policy, Intercross and Opinio Juris

The updated Commentaries are an interpretive compass emerging from more than 60 years of application and interpretation of the Geneva Conventions. Over the ...

e-Briefing: Principles guiding humanitarian action

e-Briefing: Principles guiding humanitarian action

May 27, 2016 1 min read Online publications The editors

This e-briefing traces the latest developments in the in the contemporary debate on the seven “Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and ...

UN development agenda must not obscure humanitarian action, says ICRC policy chief

UN development agenda must not obscure humanitarian action, says ICRC policy chief

May 18, 2016 1 min read Videos / World Humanitarian Summit The editors

In this video interview, Hugo Slim explains ICRC’s approach to the World Humanitarian Summit, held in Istanbul on 23-24 May 2016. The ICRC ...

Leaving people behind: Impartiality’s forgotten clause

Leaving people behind: Impartiality’s forgotten clause

May 18, 2016 7 mins read World Humanitarian Summit Marc DuBois

In the words of the UN Secretary General, ‘Leaving no one behind’ “is a central aspiration of most political, ethical or religious codes ...