Failure to find political solutions in areas of violent crisis is forcing ICRC to extend its core humanitarian remit,says organisation’s president Peter MaurerThe world’s inability to deal with the proliferation of clash driven-crises is forcing the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to shoulder an ever-larger burden and reassess the way it works, the organisation’s president has warned.
Peter Maurer said the operational budget of the world’s oldest humanitarian organisation had risen by almost 50% over the past three years as it tried to withhold pace with an “extraordinary period” of enduring humanitarian emergencies.
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Source: theguardian.com