The year 2023 presented multiple and concurrent crises that adversely affected millions of people’s lives and shaped the ICRC’s operating environment. Around 120 armed conflicts were ongoing globally, ...

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What are the humanitarian concerns raised by arms flows into conflict areas? Though the international arms trade has never been as extensively regulated as it is today, weapons and munitions continue ...

红十字国际委员会主席米里亚娜·斯波利亚里茨表示：“今日的战俘释放与遣返行动，不仅让家人得以团聚，也是切实履行《联合声明》所作承诺的重要一步。遵守国际人道法，包括在实际战事停止后遣返战俘，对于建立各方互信、推动持久和平进程至关重要。希望此次行动能够为新 ...

The Guidelines on the Protection of the Natural Environment in Armed Conflict set out rules and recommendations relating to the protection of the natural environment under international humanitarian ...

What kind of specific protection do the wounded and sick enjoy in times of armed conflict? In times of armed conflict, the wounded and sick include anyone, whether military or civilian, who needs ...

In 2015, seventy years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese Red Cross Society hospitals in those cities are still treating many thousands of people who survived the blasts and ...

What images come to mind when you think of war in Iraq? A city razed to the ground. A family in mourning. Soldiers patrolling streets. What about scores of dead palm trees? Or a barren marshland?

In Gaza City today, civilians are being killed, forcibly displaced and made to endure dire conditions. First responders, including the Palestine Red Crescent Society and Civil Defence, have been ...