Geneva Conventions 1949

Humanitarian aid workers help clean up the streets in Gaza.

U.N. panel's major powers urged to seek accountability for aid attacks

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Officials updated the 2024 death toll for humanitarian workers to 377 people across 20 countries, the worst year on record.

The Jet d'Eau fountain shoots up water before Geneva's skyline and Mont Salève

Humanitarians & Peace

On Geneva visit, diplomats tout international humanitarian law

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As the U.N. honored the Geneva Conventions, the Red Cross chief said non-compliance is a 'serious problem.'

International Committee of the Red Cross' headquarters and museum in Geneva.

Humanitarians & Peace

Geneva Conventions at the 75-year mark can 'preserve lives and dignity'

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The four international treaties, which form the rules of war, have been ratified or acceded to by virtually all nations.

Nuclear Security & WMD

NATO's most powerful member tries to reassure rest of alliance and world

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As summit host, Biden's administration projected unity for Ukraine and deflected concern about Trump.

U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal repel attackers in 2022 at Congo's Ituri Province.

Humanitarians & Peace

U.N. panel demands combatants protect humanitarian aid workers

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The vote reflects the alarming number of attacks and threats that aid workers face each year around the world.

Flags fly above the ICRC's headquarters and museum in Geneva

Humanitarians & Peace

ICRC financial crisis grows with more job cuts as funding shrinks

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Funding for humanitarian aid has been getting hard to find amid global economic pressures, but the needs are soaring.

Swiss President Alain Berset leads a U.N. Security Council session on protecting civilians.

Humanitarians & Peace

More than 100 armed conflicts, most lasting for more than 30 years

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A Swiss-led U.N. Security Council session called on all countries and armed groups to fulfill their obligations for protecting civilians under international humanitarian law.

ICRC has the legal right under the Third Geneva Convention to speak to POWs anywhere they're held.

Humanitarians & Peace

Red Cross finds around half of all armed groups are state-supported

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New ICRC guidelines are meant to protect innocent civilians and detainees against violence by non-state armed groups.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with other heads of state of the Russian-speaking Commonwealth of Independent States

Justice & Accountability

Court issues warrant for Putin over Ukrainian child abductions

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The prosecutor says the charges involve deportation of 'at least hundreds of children' taken from orphanages and homes.

The Geneva headquarters of the International Commmittee of the Red Cross

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Cyber attack exposes data from at least 60 Red Cross organizations

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Hackers gained access to ICRC confidential information about more than half a million 'highly vulnerable people.'

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin meet at the start of the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva

Security & Geopolitics

Biden and Putin agree at face-to-face Geneva meeting to cut nuclear risks

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With U.S.-Russia tensions nearing Cold War-era dimensions, the leaders turned to Swiss diplomacy to improve relations.

Kindred Spirits sculpture in County Cork, Ireland honoring Choctaws' donation to Irish famine relief

Humanitarians & Peace

Choctaw and Irish mutual aid is a model of cooperation for the ages

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Navajos thanked Irish donors for repaying a 173-year-old favor that was an early example of an international aid organization.

The U.K.'s York Cold War Bunker, built in 1961 to withstand a nuclear war

Nuclear Security & WMD

Millenials fear nuclear attack in ICRC poll

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More than half of all people reaching adulthood in the early 21st century believe it more likely than not a nuclear attack will occur in the coming decade.