International humanitarian law at a crossroads
At the end of the first World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May 2016, diplomats and heads of state were agreed on the goal of “upholding the norms that safeguard...
Reviewing the protection offered to schools under international humanitarian law
Just like health centres – and the professionals who work there and the patients they treat – schools and their teachers and pupils are not spared from conflict or acts of terrorism....
An unhealthy combination: War, Covid-19 and the politics of metaphor
At a time when multilateralism is collapsing and populism rising, Norah Niland highlights the new fragilities that Covid-19 has revealed in local and international systems of governance. If the pandemic...
Standards and finances: analysis of the report of Ban Ki-moon
The financing for implementing humanitarian action, and the regulatory standards that govern it, no doubt represent the two stumbling blocks on which the participants in the Istanbul Summit will focus...
Humanitarian Visa d’Or of the ICRC, 2011-2017: seven years of reflection
The regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in France created in 2011 the “Humanitarian Visa d’Or (Gold Visa)” in partnership with the prestigious International Festival of...