| Focus on key humanitarian issues Section highlighting some of the main issues on the humanitarian agenda with which the ICRC and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement are involved: mines, biotechnology, role of the private sector, women in war, the protective emblem and others. 29-7-2008 Armed violence and humanitarian action in urban areas
Mogadishu, Grozny, Kabul and Baghdad have all been affected by the violence of an armed conflict at one time or another. For humanitarian organizations, which often work more in rural areas, these places present particular challenges. (Focus) |
2-7-2008 Questions and answers on the Cluster Munitions Convention
The ICRC has warmly welcomed the adoption of the Cluster Munitions Convention. This historic agreement prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions that have caused widespread civilian casualties. (Focus) |
19-7-2007 Three emblems, one movement, serving humanity
This is a comprehensive brochure providing detailed information on the origin of all the emblems, its protective use in wartime and its indicative use in peacetime. It specifies the institutions entitled to use it and gives examples of misuse or lack of respect for the emblem.(Focus) |
16-3-2008 Women and the Missing: the burden of those left behind
Most of those who disappear or are killed in war are men, thereby leaving an additional burden on the women left behind. On International Women's Day (8 March), the ICRC highlighted its commitment to easing the plight of these women. (Focus) |
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Confronting sexual violence as a method of warfare
