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Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.

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The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.

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Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.

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The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try to prevent and put an end to torture and ill-treatment.

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Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.

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I have known Sepp Blatter, FIFA and football for a long time, and there are some fundamental values which FIFA and the ICRC share.

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Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the international arena.

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Even in war, everyone deserves to be treated humanely.

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Since 1989, public alarm at the prospect of atomic Armageddon has quietened, but the number of nuclear-armed states has increased, arsenals are being modernized, and powerful states remain convinced that a nuclear security umbrella is vital to national defense, domestic prestige, and geopolitical clout.

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It has always been clear that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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