ICRC: We are currently classifying the highest number of armed conflicts since the Second World War
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François Picard is pleased to welcome the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric. “War may be a human condition. But barbarity is not”: The Red Cross warns of a dangerous erosion of the rules of war War may be an enduring feature of human history, but its brutality is neither inevitable nor beyond restraint. That distinction lies at the heart of a stark warning from Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who argues that the international rules established to protect civilians are being progressively weakened…
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ICRC: We are currently classifying the highest number of armed conflicts since the Second World War
François Picard is pleased to welcome the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric. “You may consider war a human condition,” argues Spoljaric. “But brutality, barbarity, is not a human condition.” Her warning recalls the fundamental...
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ICRC: We are currently classifying the highest number of armed conflicts since the Second World War
François Picard is pleased to welcome the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric. “War may be a human condition. But barbarity is not”: The Red Cross warns of a dangerous erosion of the rules of war War may be an enduring feature of human...
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