The hostages, who were made to give public speeches thanking the Hamas militants who had held them captive, looked frail and ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The International Committee of the Red Cross is working to refocus countries' attention on the rules laid down ...

The Red Cross museum in Geneva is warning that it risks closure after its funding was axed in a broad government cost-cutting ...

Yemen’s Houthis released 153 prisoners on Saturday with support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the ICRC said in a statement. The identities of the prisoners were not ...

Labelling Pale- stinian civilians as prisoners of war undermines the protections afforded to them under international humanitarian law (IHL ... of the Red Cross (ICRC) has faced challenges ...

I work at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford and receive public funding from the British Academy and the EU Horizon program to work on food and climate, wellbeing economies, and ...

ABUJA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The United Nations will this week appeal for $910 million to help tackle a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria, which has been in the grip of an Islamist ...

But not the ICRC—then, anyway. Unlike the national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in scores of countries, the ICRC was apolitical, effective, efficient, politically neutral, and staffed ...

On January 15, 2025, the long-awaited ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hamas was approved, bringing the first bout of ...

Dams have special protection under international humanitarian law,” said the ICRC in a vaguely-written post on X. Tishreen Dam, located near the northern city of Manbij, has come under attacks ...

In a statement issued today in Geneva, the ICRC underscored the need for all parties to comply with international humanitarian law at all times, including during prisoner releases. This entails ...