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HARDtalk: Yves Daccord, director general of the International Red Cross

19/12/2014

Yves Daccord, director general of the International Red Cross

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Yves Daccord, director general of the International Red Cross

Yves Daccord, director general of the ICRC, talks to Stephen Sackur.

Yves Daccord, director general of the ICRC, talks to Stephen Sackur about whether the International Red Cross's model of scrupulously neutral intervention is broken beyond repair.

The International Red Cross does not take sides; it prioritises field operations over political grandstanding. It is the humanitarian organisation that reaches the conflict zones others fail to reach. Or is it? 

Yves Daccord, director general of the ICRC is interviewed by Stephen Sackur. From Syria to South Sudan, is the Red Cross's model of scrupulously neutral intervention broken beyond repair?

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