Iraq: People and life return to Baashiqa
Asmahan, Maya, and Julie are three women who belong to the same family. They had been displaced together from their home and returned at the beginning of 2017. They speak about years they spent in …
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Kuwait: Senior military officers discuss proportionality rule in law of armed conflict
17-04-2018 Kuwait (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross together with Ministry of Defense of Kuwait held a three-day meeting to discuss the Proportionality Principle in International …
Kyrgyzstan: Improving access to health care for detainees
About 70% of the detainees in the temporary detention facilities in Kyrgyzstan now have access to regular medical care. And these figures will continue to grow. Before 2014, those detained in …
Enhancing protection in armed conflict through domestic law and policy
Universal meeting of national committees and similar bodies on IHL (NCIHL) International humanitarian law (IHL) affords protection to people and property in armed conflict, but only if its rules are …
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, efforts redoubled to find missing and support families
"A part of my agony vanished that day. For so many years I had worried where he was, if he was hungry, if he was cold. Now at last I know where he is." The words of a Milka Budimrović after her …
Remembering the victims of a “forgotten war”
From 10 to 11 April 2018, the ICRC regional delegation for the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova, together with the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation, gathered archivists from …
Central African Republic: Trauma unit ‘completely full’ after violence in Bangui
13-04-2018 Bangui/Geneva (ICRC) – The trauma unit at a major hospital in the Central African Republic is filled to capacity after an outbreak of fighting in the capital, where ambulances transporting …
Towards limits on autonomy in weapon systems
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, statement of the ICRC The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is …
Enhancing Protection in Armed Conflict through Domestic Law and Policy
International humanitarian law (IHL) affords protection to people and property in armed conflict, but only if its rules are properly recognized, clearly understood and fully complied with, when and …
Empress Shôken Fund announces grants for 2018
The Empress Shôken Fund is named after Her Majesty the Empress of Japan, who proposed – at the 9th International Conference of the Red Cross – the creation of an international fund to promote relief …
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