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Facilitating innovation, ensuring protection: the ICRC Biometrics Policy

Facilitating innovation, ensuring protection: the ICRC Biometrics Policy

October 18, 2019, 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

Humanitarian Action: The need to scale back, not up

June 20, 2019, Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles
Marc DuBois

Your father has a heart attack. The ambulance crew arrives in minutes. They save his life. A success. But they do not leave. ...

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

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

March 30, 2018, 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

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

January 30, 2018, 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

Towards a humanitarian ban on nuclear weapons

August 4, 2016, 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

Red Cross Red Crescent leaders ask governments to review migration policies

June 15, 2016, 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 ...