A New Year’s resolution: bringing IHL home

January 21, 2020 8 mins read Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Eva Svoboda

As the old year bids farewell and the new year takes shape, we tend to ...

‘Act today, shape tomorrow’: the 33rd International Conference

December 10, 2019 7 mins read Counterterrorism / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Principles / Sexual Violence Helen Durham & Kosuke Onishi

Today we launch the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, a ...

Moving beyond mine risk education to risk awareness and safer behaviour

November 7, 2019 6 mins read Humanitarian Action / Landmines and the Law / Law and Conflict / Weapons Louis G. Maresca

A recent blog piece by Chris Loughran highlighted the important achievements of the Anti-Personnel Mine ...

Trust Me – I’m a Humanitarian

October 24, 2019 12 mins read Accountability / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Sexual Violence / The most read blog posts in 2019 Hugo Slim

The question of trust has become a major issue in humanitarian action. Can parties to ...

The Power of Humanity: On Being Human Now and in the Future

July 30, 2019 12 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Identity / The most read blog posts in 2019 Hugo Slim

In December 2019 the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement will meet in Geneva ...

“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

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

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 ...