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Myanmar: Six months after the earthquake, access to clean water remains a lifeline for hard-hit communities

… 26-09-2025 Geneva/Yangon (ICRC) – Six months after a … humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around the …

News release
ICRC workers providing clean water containers in Myanmar

Israel and the Occupied Territories: ICRC mourns killing of Palestine Red Crescent Society staff member in Gaza

… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around the …

News release

Concern about deteriorating health of Palestinian detainees hospitalized in Israel

… humanely in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention, are fully aware of the …

News release

Civilian "direct participation in hostilities": overview

… part in hostilities". However, neither the Geneva Conventions nor their Additional Protocols … expert meetings were held in The Hague and Geneva between 2003 and 2008, bringing together …

Law and policy topic

ICRC president: The world cannot afford limitless war

… due to the role we play outlined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Just this past week, ICRC … the humanitarian steps outlined in the Geneva Conventions into peace agreements.  I …

Statement
Mirjana Spoljaric ICRC

War in Yemen: Don’t look away from the world’s largest humanitarian crisis

… conferred on us by States in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional … this mandate on the ICRC in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional …

Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems

… Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, Geneva, 21 Aug. 2019, … of the ICRC on agenda item 5(a)’, GGE, Geneva, 25–29 Mar. 2019; and ICRC, ‘Statement … harm.e a Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to …

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Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems report cover

Syria: 35,000 registered missing in 13 years of conflict as ICRC helps families seek answers

… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around the … tel: +961 81 569 718 Christian Cardon, ICRC Geneva, email:  ccardon@icrc.org , tel: +41 79 …

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ICRC land cruiser in Homs, Syria, driving past a collapsed building

Sudan: Brutal, targeted attacks on civilians must stop

… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around the … 077, fseriex@icrc.org Halimatou Amadou, ICRC Geneva, +41 79 868 55 83, hamadou@icrc.org   …

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Statement from ICRC President Peter Maurer following visit to Syria

… the ICRC is calling for: • Respect of the Geneva Conventions and respect for civilians and … +44 7753 80 94 71 Iolanda Jaquemet, ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 79 447 37 26   Peter Maurer …

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