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

Armed conflicts continue to have devastating consequences on access to water and other essential services. Damage to critical infrastructure disrupts access to safe water, health care, sanitation and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“The explosion occurred during breaking of fast, which many of us did not have time to complete because we had to deploy to the scene,” recalls Babagana, a veteran volunteer of the Nigerian Red Cross ...

The Montreux Document is the result of an international process launched by the Government of Switzerland and the ICRC. It is an intergovernmental document intended to promote respect for ...

In an age when anyone can denounce violations online or on social media, the ICRC's confidential approach saves lives. Here ...

This World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, we mourn our colleagues who were appallingly killed while trying to save lives. Their deaths demand far more than empty words of outrage. They demand action.

Since World War II, the international community has progressively developed a system of international jurisdictions, which complement the jurisdictions of domestic courts, to try people accused of ...

Professional Standards for Protection Work (third edition) constitutes a set of minimum but essential standards aimed at ensuring that protection work carried out by human rights and humanitarian ...