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

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

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