- Nov 07, 2020
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- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attacks on health facilities, health workers, ambulances, is now a reality that we observe on the ground - not on a monthly but on a daily or weekly scale in most of the conflicts in which we are engaged.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and smaller armies, which move into city centres, which increasingly become the theatre of warfare.
- Nov 07, 2020
Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
We demonize our enemies at our own peril.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.
- Humanitarian
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough skills.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although the ICRC and the World Economic Forum have separate missions, they both are centred on collaboration across sectors and between various actors in order to improve the state of the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020