On this World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, we honor our staff and volunteers' service, bravery, and sacrifice. We will continue to work together to keep humanity alive.

Read more in our joint statement 👉🏽 ms.spr.ly/6015YVHyT

Finishing a week full of interesting meetings with PM to the #OAS of Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina en la OEA, Bolivia, OEA El Salvador OEA Guatemala, Jamaica, Perú en la OEA and Embassy of the Republic of Suriname in DC to discuss #IHL and the #missing .

Ethical considerations are crucial, yet unrealized, for regulating autonomous weapon systems. Listen to our new law & policy podcast to know more about it 👇🏽

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“We were sleeping on leaves.”

“I was living in a cave.”

ICRC provided Essential household items and cash assistance to 6000 displaced people in Fatsi and Kil’at, Gulo Mekeda, Eastern #Tigray .

This will improve their living conditions.

Today at the Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons we call for new, legally binding international rules, to prohibit those autonomous weapon systems that pose the gravest risk for IHL compliance and our values, and to place strict constraints on all others 👇🏽

🎧 On digital tech & conflict: ICRC's Jonathan Horowitz explains why tech company lawyer and leaders should familiarize themselves with int’l humanitarian law at this year's U.S. Cyber Command legal conference #IHL 🔻

Birthdays.
Anniversaries.
Holidays.
Special occasions.

For more than six months, those held hostage and their families have not been able to celebrate events and milestones together – the empty chairs at tables are a painful reminder each and every day of their absence.

“More is needed to help people to get back on their feet.” Says Sarah Epprecht-Noetzli, ICRC’s protection and essential services Director.

The Director visited conflict-affected areas in #Tigray region.

Watch 👇

A sharp increase in the number of wounded people has put enormous pressure on the few functioning hospitals in Haiti`s capital, Port-au-Prince, as they run dangerously low on medical supplies amid a flare up in armed violence. For our latest update: ms.spr.ly/6019YGRMc

After 75 years, are the Geneva Conventions still fit for purpose? On May 23rd, join Foreign Policy and ICRC for Principles of Humanity Under Pressure. Register now. foreignpolicy.com/events/princip…

⚖️ The Geneva Conventions and International Humanitarian Law are crystal clear:

Civilians and all those not taking part in the fighting must NOT be attacked and must be spared and protected.

They are NEVER part of the hostilities.

#NotATarget

#ThrowbackThursday

For some communities in #Ethiopia , access to clean and safe water is a daily struggle, further exacerbated by conflict and drought.

ICRC installed 20 water hand pumps to provide safe and clean water for 4,655 people in the Woreda of Abergele Yechila, Central #Tigray .

❗️❗️ A single act of violence against health care facilities can affect thousands of people in need of medical assistance.

🏥 Medical personnel & infrastructure are protected under international humanitarian law.

❌ Hospitals are  #NotATarget

In April, the #ICRC representatives again visited all the Armenian detainees notified by the Azerbaijani authorities.

The detainees were met in private and were given a possibility to exchange family news.

Florence Nightingale changed nursing forever.

This is the story of the precursor of modern nursing and its influence on the creation of the Red Cross.

The rules of war are not optional, they're an obligation of all parties to armed conflicts.

Even wars have limits.

'There is no small act of kindness in Gaza”.

Susanne, an operating theatre nurse, has been in Gaza supporting patients through their devastating realities.

Our war surgery teams have been in the European Gaza Hospital since Nov. supporting life-saving operations and recovery.