📍 Syria | The humanitarian needs remain immense.
Nicolas von Arx, ICRC’s regional director for the Near and Middle East, describes the complex humanitarian situation people are going through 👇🏼
Striking figures from @ICRC on today‘s armed conflict:
1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣+ non-international armed conflicts
1️⃣3️⃣0️⃣ NSAGs
2️⃣1️⃣0️⃣ million people living under armed group control.
To assist & protect these people, operate safely, to disseminate #IHL, we have to act!
https://t.co/aeXrEV3OmX
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President, has concluded a two-day visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The trip was an opportunity to reinforce the importance of humanitarian action and IHL in alleviating suffering in conflict zones globally.
Read more: https://t.co/8UYdb0GfAf
🚨 Some field-based perspectives on #Yemen from @ICRC Director of Operations.
Yemen remains one of the top #humanitarian operations of the ICRC in the world.👇
اختارت المديرة الجديدة للعمليات في اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر #اليمن كأول زيارة لها من 20 إلى 26 أكتوبر. للتأكيد على الحاجة الملحة للدعم الإنساني والتزام اللجنة الدولية تجاه الشعب اليمني.
Don't miss tomorrow's live session from the International Conference 2024 with @PKraehenbuehl and @jagan_chapagain!
On the program:
- The key takeaways from the International Conference
- Protection of humanitarian workers
- International Humanitarian Law and armed conflicts
The 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, starting today, brings together 191 National Societies, @ifrc, @ICRC, and states to tackle pressing humanitarian issues.
Joint statement with @ifrc 👉🏽 https://t.co/ZdlP4J37dr
Today, the #RedCross#RedCrescent Movement adopted a roadmap on weapons and international humanitarian law. The Movement’s long-standing work for the int'l regulation of weapons seeks to support compliance with #IHL and lessen the inhumanity of war.
https://t.co/2xxWQlDOA8
“It is against the spirit of international humanitarian law to asume that you are allowed to dehumanize the other in the interest of your own safety and security”
@ICRC President M. Spoljaric: “Respect for laws of war urgently needed” 👇🏻
#IHL
https://t.co/Qj0P11cTf1
“The laws of war mandate the protection of humanitarian aid workers and the safe delivery of aid to those most in need, but let’s be clear: Humanitarian action is no substitute for political courage and compromise.” https://t.co/WPDe920btL
The international community must lend its voice to this cause. We need a unified call to action, urging governments to ensure respect for humanitarian law, to recenter the debate about armed conflicts on the urgent need to set higher expectations of parties to conflict (…).
« Chaque génération, sans doute, se croit vouée à refaire le monde. La mienne sait pourtant qu’elle ne le refera pas. Mais sa tâche est plus grande. Elle consiste à empêcher que le monde se défasse. »
Albert Camus
For those working or visiting the #UNHQ in NYC, come see our #DeepFake exhibition co-organized with #Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (#EPFL). Let’s discuss about the complex digital landscape we live in, #AI and #digital threats!
@ICRC@swiss_un@UN
Additionally, under #IHL, medical personnel, units, and transport exclusively assigned to medical duties and purposes must be respected and protected in all circumstances.
The ICRC continues to remind all parties to the conflict that constant care mut be taken to spare the civilian population, civilians, and civilian objects in the conduct of military operations.