Responding to climate risks in conflict settings: in search of solutions

November 23, 2023 10 mins read Analysis / Climate change / Climate change, conflict and humanitarian action Catherine-Lune Grayson & Amir Khouzam

At COP28, states and organizations will adopt a Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace, ...

Investing in the laws of war: international humanitarian law and the financial sector

August 3, 2023 10 mins read Analysis / Finance / IHL / Law and Conflict Fauve Kurnadi & Adaena Sinclair-Blakemore

The international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine has revealed a knowledge gap across the global financial sector regarding exposure to armed conflict, ...

Facilitating innovation, ensuring protection: the ICRC Biometrics Policy

October 18, 2019 13 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / New Technologies Ben Hayes & Massimo Marelli

The use of biometric identification systems by humanitarian organisations has been the subject of intense ...

Humanitarian Action: The need to scale back, not up

June 20, 2019 9 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / The most read blog posts in 2019 Marc DuBois

Your father has a heart attack. The ambulance crew arrives in minutes. They save his ...

The principle of non-refoulement in the migration context: 5 key points

March 30, 2018 10 mins read Detention / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Migration / The most read blog posts in 2018 / Torture Tilman Rodenhäuser

The current discussions on the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees ...

Gustave Ador, the ICRC, and leadership on refugee and migration policy

January 30, 2018 9 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Migration Claudena M. Skran

Recent arrivals of thousands of forced migrants in Europe have prompted reconsideration of international responses to refugee movements of the early twentieth century. ...

Towards a humanitarian ban on nuclear weapons

August 4, 2016 10 mins read Humanitarian Action Elizabeth Minor

Over the past six years, a concerted effort by committed States, international organizations and civil society to reframe the international discourse on nuclear ...

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 ...