Reference :
V-F-CR-F-04193-4
Date :
22/05/2025
Title :
Address to the UN Security Council by ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric - May 22, 2025 - No excuses for double standards
Duration :
00:01:43
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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.
"I will not repeat the horrors because of widespread violations of international humanitarian law.
This Council is briefed—week after week— about civilians being maimed and murdered, about civilians being detained, tortured, raped, starved, and forcibly displaced.
And yet we have to ask ourselves: where is the political courage to stop the killing?
Today, we face not only a crisis of compliance with the rules of war, but one of our collective conscience.
The precedent being set on battlefields today will haunt us for a long time.
There are no excuses for double standards.
Every State has a stake in this.
Last September when I last briefed this Council, I called on you to turn rhetorical support for IHL into action.
Specifically, I urged you to call your allies when they violate the rules of war and demand that they stop.
The moment to pick up the phone is now.
No one wants to live in a world where the rules of war apply only to your enemies—and not to yourself and to your allies.
Civilians will suffer less when all sides commit to the basic principles of humanity in war."
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