Reference :
V-F-CR-F-04193-3
Date :
22/05/2025
Title :
Address to the UN Security Council by ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric - May 22, 2025 - Defends the rules of war today.
Duration :
00:01:35
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unknown
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public
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Description :
Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the ICRC to the UN Security Council in New York on the protection of civilians.
"The impacts of “total victory” or “because we can” reverberate far beyond war zones.
Unrestrained violence breeds even bigger security threats that can strike when and where we least expect.
Your state may not be at war today.
Your family may be far from frontlines.
But tides turn.
New conflicts erupt.
And if you do not defend the rules of war today, you are accepting a world where wars are fought with increasing barbarity and disregard for our shared humanity.
Today, the ICRC counts about 130 armed conflicts across the world
—more than we recorded a year ago, and more than six times what we saw 25 years ago.
Many of these conflicts are deeply protracted.
In many parts of the world, armed forces or non-state armed groups represent the only viable source of income.
This does not support hope for stability, let alone sustainable economic growth.
And most importantly: the world of today is more interconnected than ever.
In today’s conflicts, you do not have to pull the trigger to be complicit in the consequences."
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