The briefer provides an overview of the humanitarian consequences of conflict on essential services, explains the ICRC's ...

"The civilian population in Gaza is living in abhorrent conditions. Further displacement and an intensification in hostilities risk worsening an already catastrophic situation. With more than 80 ...

Every minute without a ceasefire risks civilian lives. The level of suffering inflicted on civilians because of warfare conducted indiscriminately and the extreme deprivation of the essentials for ...

In 2022, from Africa to the Americas, Near and Middle East to Asia, the ICRC mapped 524 armed groups that are of humanitarian concern, with at least 175 million people estimated to live in areas fully ...

The ICRC has a clear and consistent public position towards all states when it comes to using explosive weapons in populated ...

A story published in The New Yorker includes excerpts of confidential ICRC correspondence that the publication says was ...

Humans must maintain control over life-and-death decisions. This video shows the dangers of autonomous weapons – and what must be done to avert them. Increasingly, weapons that select and engage ...

The numerous rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) that seek to protect civilians, most prominently in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 (GCIV), give expression to the fundamental ...

Aseel was counting down the days to her wedding. She was busy with preparations, discussing arrangements with her family and imagining the day she would celebrate with her loved ones. “We had barely ...

As States convene in the United Nations Global Mechanism on Developments in the Field of ICTs in the Context of International Security and Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in the Use of ICTs, the ...

Behind every statistic on displacement is a person who made a difficult choice about how to survive the hostilities: to shelter underground, to flee at the last possible moment, to carry a loved one ...

Every time Ashraf Al-Khatib, a paramedic with the Palestine Red Crescent Society, leaves for work, his family says goodbye as though they may not see him again. "Every time we return home," he says, ...