The ICRC works closely with its movement partner, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS), to deliver vital emergency assistance and healthcare services. The ICRC also provides economic support to ...

Surging violence, increasing restrictions on movement and an acceleration of settlement expansion are causing serious harm to ...

On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, high-level representatives of the six founding states of the Global ...

Delivered by Elyse Mosquini, Permanent Observer to the United Nations and Head of ICRC Delegation in New York.

In communities affected and displaced by conflict in Gwoza and Biu, northeast Nigeria, access to water once defined the ...

Since 1945 the ICRC, together with the wider International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, has been calling for a ban on nuclear weapons. In 2017, we welcomed the adoption of the Treaty on the ...

Delivered by Christopher Harland, Deputy Permanent Observer to the United Nations and Deputy Head of ICRC Delegation in New York.

Humans must maintain control over life-and-death decisions. This video shows the dangers of autonomous weapons – and what must be done to avert them. Increasingly, weapons that select and engage ...

People have always used violence to settle disputes. And all cultures have always had the idea that there have to be limits on that violence, if we are to prevent wars from descending into barbarity.

A statement delivered by ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric at a high-level side event at the 81st UN General Assembly on ...

Each year, the ICRC in Iraq publishes a snapshot of its activities in numbers. Here's a glimpse into our activities in Iraq ...

The following speech was delivered by ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric on 23 September at the Inaugural Meeting of ...