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Record ICRC funding gap leaves agency shaken | Invest in essential workers | Sending arms as a humanitarian act | Venezuela's forgotten crisis

The ICRC has been left shaken and worried after last week’s announcement that it is facing a potential budget shortfall of CHF 700 million this year.

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Politics and Borders Matter, even in a Humanitarian Catastrophe

Daniel Warner | Politics and borders have negative consequences when governments are confronted with a dire human catastrophe. For different reasons, the governments of Syria and Türkiye have been grossly deficient in preparing for and reacting to the earthquake.

#120 The G|O Briefing, December 1, 2022

The ICRC's "silent failure" on Ukraine — Geneva's role in demining efforts — A new US-Chinese bipolar world? Maybe not! — A response from the UN

The Silent Failure of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine

Daniel Warner | Why has the ICRC not been more vocal about grave human rights and international humanitarian law violations in Ukraine?

Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, on the war in Ukraine

"The so-called collective West has long forsaken its core concerns for human rights, instead using the Council as a playground to host the blame game against its political opponents, this time Russia and China."

#114 The G|O Briefing, October 20, 2022

"Ukraine and the West will never defeat Russia," Russian Ambassador in Geneva says | The UN reviews its humanitarian strategy

#113 The G|O Briefing, October 13, 2022

GESDA: SCIENCE AT THE MULTILATERAL TABLE | HAITI 'S TOTAL COLLAPSE | LATEST ADDITION TO UN GVA CAMPUS STILL PLAGUED BY PROBLEMS | MUSICAL CHAIRS

Haiti's near collapse exposes the fragility and collective failure of the humanitarian response

“It is tragic that the UN has engaged in Haiti so often but is still trying to sort out many of the same problems with law and order that it first addressed in the 1990s”

#91 The G|O Briefing, March 24, 2022

How the BRICS are fighting efforts to isolate Russia in Geneva - Election countdown at the ILO - Truth, lies, and alternative facts in Russia

The war in Ukraine is transforming the dynamics of International Geneva

On Tuesday, March 1, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was about to deliver his video message to the Human Rights Council (HRC), an entire contingent of more than one hundred diplomats representing forty countries, European and others, bolted out of their seats and left the room. They gathered in

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