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HARDtalk: Yves Daccord - Director General of the International Red Cross

Yves Daccord

05/01/2015

Yves Daccord - Director General of the International Red Cross

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Yves Daccord - Director General of the International Red Cross

From Syria to South Sudan, is the Red Cross still capable of neutral intervention?

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

The International Red Cross doesn't take sides; it prioritises field operations over political grandstanding. It's the humanitarian organisation that reaches the conflict zones others fail to reach. Or is it? Stephen Sackur talks to Yves Daccord, director general of the ICRC. From Syria to South Sudan, is the Red Cross model of scrupulously neutral intervention broken beyond repair?

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