ICRC: We are currently classifying the highest number of armed conflicts since the Second World War

1. France 24 FIRST 59m ago 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 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 argu

2. France 24 49m ago 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 premise of the 1949 Geneva Conventions: even in war, there can be no lawless space, and certain red lines must never be crossed.

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