National Day 2023 under the sign of the climate emergency and human rights | City of Geneva
The program for August 1, 2023 will be dedicated to the climate emergency and to human rights. Zeinab Mousavi and Mana Mandegar, two Iranian women who had to flee their…
Update of customary IHL database June 2023
New update of the customary IHL database We have just updated the customary IHL database to include additional practice from Nigeria and Tajikistan. The database contains: the 161 rules of…
Annual Report 2022 | ICRC
In 2022, we stepped up our efforts to address the growing humanitarian needs generated by armed conflicts and other situations of violence around the world, particularly in communities also coping…
Philippines: Forging new ways with the Philippine Red Cross
Article | The sessions aimed to enhance the cooperation between the ICRC and the PRC, as well as share relevant information. Source link
Ballad of Queens, past and present | City of Geneva
At theCemetery of the Kingsmusic performances with piano and song as well as dance, theatre, circus and different interventions are on the program to pay tribute to the women buried…
What is a paella and how to prepare and cook one?
Paella is a traditional Spanish dish that originated in Valencia. It is a rice-based dish that can be made with different ingredients, such as seafood, meat, vegetables, or a combination…
Argentina, 9 women sue a state institution abusively calling them ‘victims of sexual abuse’
Five women older than 50, three in their forties and one in mid-thirties are suing on appeal two prosecutors of the state agency PROTEX on unfounded claims of their being…
Federico Rios Escobar wins ICRC Humanitarian Visa dor for photo essay on migrants crossing the Darin Gap
Federico Rios Escobar’s photo essay, « Paths of desperate hope, crossing the Darin Gap », was produced with Julie Turkewitz, the Andes bureau chief for The New York Times. The…
Urgent reform needed to shield women and children from violence during custody battles
“The tendency of family courts to dismiss the history of domestic violence and abuse in custody cases, especially where mothers and/or children have brought forward credible allegations of domestic abuse,…
Killings drive Israelis and Palestinians ‘deeper into an abyss’, warns Türk
“These latest killings and the violence, along with the inflammatory rhetoric, serve only to drive Israelis and Palestinians deeper into an abyss,” said the High Commissioner for Human Rights, as…