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Azerbaijan: Creative ways help to promote landmine risk awareness among wide audience
Landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) have been putting the lives of people living in conflict-affected areas in Azerbaijan at risk.| Article -
Mali: livestock farming – a traditional way of life under threat
Under a makeshift tent that barely shields him from the sun, Arrab Ag Yehia, a livestock farmer and manager of a site for displaced people near Gao, talks about the future with a sense of trepidation.| Article -
Mirjana Spoljaric: "We can elevate the protection of children in armed conflict as a political priority"
Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the Conference on Protecting Children in Armed Conflicts in Oslo (06.06.2023)Dear Minister, dear colleagues,Armed conflicts continue to ruin the lives of| Statement -
Autonomous weapons: ICRC urges states to launch negotiations for new legally binding rules
After nearly ten years' of discussions, the Group of Governmental Experts of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has set out a structure of non-binding prohibitions and limitations related to autonomous weapon systems.While this stru| Statement -
South Sudan: Facts & Figures January - December 2022
From January to December 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) continued to address the humanitarian consequences of armed conflict and violence in South Sudan while ensuring that the most vulnerable and affected populations were| Article -
Gaza: with each cycle of violence, hearts grow heavier
The five days of conflict in May 2023 caused death, injury, and destruction for residents of Gaza, many of whom have not yet begun to psychologically, physically or financially heal from their experiences in May 2021 and August 2022.| Article -
Pakistan: Promoting responsible reporting on sexual violence
However, reporting on sexual and gender-based violence is often a challenging task, especially in regions where direct access to victims and communities is limited.| Article