Two months after the outbreak of war in Georgia, over 1500 people are still living in a tented camp on the outskirts of Gori, an hours' drive from Tbilisi.

The ICRC continues to expand its support to the elderly and displaced in Georgia in a security situation that remains volatile owing to the presence of a large number of weapons and firearms. A substantial number of people are on the move, attempting to return home.

Belgrade/Sarajevo/Pristina (ICRC) – Seventeen years have gone by since the start of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and nearly 17,000 people are still unaccounted for across the region.

The ICRC appeals to the government of Nepal to clarify the fate of those who went missing during the country's 10-year internal conflict and to acknowledge the suffering and needs of the families.

Apia (ICRC) - The Pacific countries' commitment to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the focus of an event organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Samoan Attorney General's office on 14 and 15 August in Samoa.

Amman (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is flying humanitarian supplies from Jordan to Georgia to help victims of the recent fighting between Georgia and Russia.

Kinshasa/ Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched its largest relief operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2006.

Kabul / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the high number of civilian casualties caused by recent attacks in different parts of the country. At least 250 civilians are reported to have been killed or injured in various incidents since 4 July.

Beirut (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is organizing two war-surgery seminars in Beirut and Zahleh over the weekends of 5-6 and 12-13 July.

Baghdad (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today handed over to the Iraqi Directorate of Health a new primary health-care centre in Basra.

Dakar / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today returned to Agadez four French citizens who had been held by the Mouvement des Nigériens pour la justice (MNJ).

Abuja (ICRC) – On 18 and 19 June the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held its 5th annual university workshop on international humanitarian law.

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Abidjan (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun to distribute seed and fertilizer to some 21,000 impoverished farmers in northern and central Côte d’Ivoire so that they can start cultivating their fields again.

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Kinshasa/ Geneva (ICRC) – More and more civilians are suffering the effects of the lack of security in the province of North Kivu, which has persisted despite the peace agreement reached by the main warring parties.

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Geneva/Khartoum (ICRC) – In response to fighting over the past two days in Omdurman, part of greater Khartoum, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delivered medical supplies to the main hospital there on Sunday.

N’Djamena (ICRC) – Today, 8 May, the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Chad is celebrating not only World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day but also the 30th anniversary of its humanitarian work in the country.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely concerned about the difficult humanitarian situation in which the people of Somalia find themselves.

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Jerusalem / Tel Aviv (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross, in cooperation with the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Palestine Ministry of Health, is launching an awareness campaign in the occupied Palestinian territories to highlight the need to safeguard the work of medical personnel and health facilities.

Geneva, Colombo (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the growing number of civilian casualties, including children, resulting from the deteriorating security situation across Sri Lanka.

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Two major water-supply projects have recently been completed with ICRC assistance in Goma and Bukavu, the largest cities in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Cassava is the staple food for many people in the Republic of the Congo. Cassava mosaic virus disease is threatening their food supply and their economic independence.

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On 14 December 2007, 368 persons were repatriated from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Geneva (ICRC) – The Palestinian population living in the occupied territories is facing a worsening humanitarian crisis as a result of the drastic deterioration of the situation there.

Geneva (ICRC) – On 12 December, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), acting as a neutral intermediary, facilitated the transfer of two civilians, who had been detained in Baku and in Nagorny Karabakh respectively.

London (ICRC) – Only five in ten Britons now believe that civilians should not be targeted in wartime compared to seven in ten in 1999, according to the results of the 2007 "People on War" survey for Great Britain.

A team of three students from the University of Zimbabwe trounced 12 other teams from across the continent to win the seventh International Competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in Arusha, Tanzania.

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Jerusalem (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urges the Israeli authorities to authorise the prompt resumption of visits for families from Gaza with their relatives detained in Israeli prisons.

ICRC appeals for record budget of 932 million Swiss francs for humanitarian work in 2008. This video report shows action undertaken by the ICRC to help displaced people in Iraq, Chad, Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and interviews with ICRC Director of Operations Pierre Krähenbühl in English, French and Spanish.

Geneva (ICRC) – An Azerbaijani civilian previously detained in Yerevan has been repatriated from Armenia to Azerbaijan under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The Kongolo city pumping station and drinking water treatment and supply plant, which the ICRC and the Redigeso (the national water authority) have just restored to working order, was inaugurated on 23 November.

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The ICRC began last Friday to distribute food to displaced people in Dogdoré, in the eastern district of Dar Sila.

Geneva (ICRC) – Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has arrived in Addis Ababa for talks with the African Union (AU).

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today facilitated the repatriation of an Iranian national released in Iraq.

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Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has distributed relief supplies to 5,560 people who fled their homes to the countryside and villages around Haskanita, North Darfur, following the clashes that took place on 29-30 September.

Twenty instructors from the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) will attend a one-week training course in international humanitarian law (IHL) – also known as the law of armed conflict – in Monrovia from 29 October to 3 November.

Nalsar University of Law, representing India, won the third Henry Dunant Memorial Regional Moot Court Competition in New Delhi on 28 October at the end of two days of intense competition.

On 26 October 2007, 835 civilians were repatriated from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In the same operation, 50 civilians were repatriated from Ethiopia to Eritrea.

Colombo (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was unable to transfer the remains of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) personnel killed last Monday in Anuradhapura.

Some 3,000 people are enjoying greater access to vital drinking water following today's completion of the Gasasa project in Bwiza, 250 kilometres west of the capital Kigali.

On 28 and 29 October, 22 senior editors and columnists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka met in Dhaka to debate the topic: "Media Reporting – Armed Conflict and Violence."

A postgraduate course in war surgery is to be held in the Philippines from 12 to 13 October 2007 with the support and participation of the ICRC. The course will be hosted by the Department of Surgery of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Medical Center.

Twenty-three officers of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) have just completed a five-day refresher course on integrating international humanitarian law (IHL) into training and practice.

Senior legal officials from 13 West African states participated in a seminar on the implementation of international humanitarian law treaties in Abuja from 3 to 4 October 2007.

In late September, the ICRC held a one-week advanced course in international humanitarian law, with support from the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Kabul/Geneva (ICRC) – Four staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were released today after being seized by an armed group in Wardak Province, south-west of Kabul on 26 September.

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Geneva (ICRC) – An Azerbaijani civilian previously detained in Nagorny Karabakh has been handed over to the Azerbaijani authorities under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The Henry Dunant National Moot Court Competition, organized by the ICRC, will be held on 18 September at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies in Colombo.

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The ICRC is running a practical and theoretical seminar on the surgical treatment of gunshot wounds at the university hospitals of Donka and Ignace Conakry from 15 to 22 September.

Geneva/Bogotá (ICRC) – Yesterday, 09 September 2007, the ICRC transported the bodies of 11 persons to Cali. They were handed over to forensics authorities in the presence of the families of the members of the Valle del Cauca Assembly.

Thirty officers from the 2nd Division of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) are currently participating in a three-day basic training course on international humanitarian law in Kasese district, west of the capital Kampala.

The ICRC’s Paoua sub-delegation is rounding off a series of operations to distribute basic necessities to some 13,500 families in the sub-prefectures of Paoua and Markounda.

Together with the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and the Ministry of Public Health, the ICRC held a third regional round-table on health care in prisons in Guinea on 10 August.

From 14 to 18 August 2007, the ICRC and the Rwandan Defence Forces held a joint advanced course on international humanitarian law at Nyakinama military academy in Nord province.

Moscow – A five-day International Summer School on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) organized by the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is due to open on 20 August near Moscow.

The ICRC held a seminar in Colombo on 16 August to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption in 1977 of the first two Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions.

Baku (ICRC) – The ICRC is organizing two events in Azerbaijan this summer with a view to promoting awareness of international humanitarian law (IHL) among law teachers, students, lawyers and members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated the release of two South Korean hostages in Afghanistan today. The two women had been held by an armed opposition group in Ghazni Province for more than three weeks. ICRC personnel handed them over to a South Korean delegation in the town of Ghazni.

Geneva (ICRC) – Since 10 August the Kabul delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been facilitating direct talks in Ghazni, south-west of the capital, between representatives of an armed opposition group holding 21 Korean hostages and a Korean delegation.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field - 27 June - 30 July 2007

ICRC (Geneva) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the decision by the authorities of Ethiopia's Somali Regional State, where it has been present for over 12 years, to give it seven days' notice to leave.

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From today, over 10,000 people reliable access to drinking water, thanks to a new ICRC-built water tank at the Luzira Prison Complex in Kampala. "The ICRC built the new tank to improve the water supply for the 4,500 inmates of Luzira’s four prisons.

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Amman (ICRC) – On Sunday 1st July, a Jordanian child who had been living in Iraq with his mother was reunited with his father under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Bukavu (ICRC) – An upsurge of violence in South Kivu has forced thousands of families to flee their villages.

New Delhi / Geneva (ICRC) – The director of operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mr Pierre Krähenbühl, completed a three-day visit to India during which he held talks with the foreign secretary, Mr Shiv Shankar Menon, and the home secretary, Mr Madhukar Gupta.

The Working Group on missing persons held its seventh session in Pristina on 29 June.

25 May – 27 June 2007 - Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

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Geneva (ICRC) – At its meeting of 20 June 2007, the Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross co-opted Anne de Boccard as a new member of the Committee.

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Kabul ambulance service responded with eight ambulances to the bombing of a police academy bus outside the police headquarters in downtown Kabul on 17 June. The bombing claimed almost three dozen lives, and left dozens more wounded at the scene.

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Geneva (ICRC) – Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has arrived in Stockholm for a two-day visit

On the 12th of June 2007 at Kabaya, a water supply rehabilitation and reinforcement project was inaugurated by the Minister in charge of Water and Mines accompanied by the head of delegation of the ICRC in Kigali.

Tel Aviv / Jerusalem - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply disturbed by the events in Gaza over the last two days, particularly the attacks in and around two hospitals in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

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Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is stepping up its humanitarian activities after months of growing hostilities in the Central African Republic.

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Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Amman

Kabul / Geneva (ICRC) – Heavy fighting in the Chamkani district of Paktia province on 18 May has reportedly left many opposition fighters dead.

Colombo/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) decided today immediately and temporarily to withdraw its employees from Omanthai and Uyilankulam crossing points (lines).

Geneva / Beirut (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the recent escalation of violence in Lebanon.

The ICRC is deeply concerned about the renewed disruption of health services available to the Palestinian population living in the West Bank.

For the first time ever, the ICRC and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) co-organized a workshop for directors of army training at the Regional Peacekeeping Centre (RPTC) in Harare. It was held from 7 to 11 May 2007.

In collaboration with the ICRC, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Rwanda organized a one-day round table on the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and its five Protocols.

Geneva / Jerusalem / Tel-Aviv (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the recent escalation of violence affecting the Gaza Strip and nearby Israeli towns.

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Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling on its international donors to fund an increase of 18.7 million Swiss francs in its budget for Somalia, already one of the organization's largest operations worldwide.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today asked donors for an additional 35 million Swiss francs to allow it to substantially expand its humanitarian work in Iraq.

Geneva / Sanaa (ICRC) – A humanitarian aid convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Yemeni Red Crescent Society came under heavy gunfire in al Saifi, 18 km north of the town of Saada in northern Yemen, on 2 May.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Bogotá

A four-man delegation from the Louise Arthur Grimes Law School of the University of Liberia and the ICRC have returned from the 3rd National Moot Court competition in international humanitarian law (IHL) held in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Geneva (ICRC) – Nine civilians, including seven Chinese nationals working for an oil company in Ethiopia's Somali Regional State, were released at 14.30 p.m. local time today under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

On 27 April 2007, 431 civilians were repatriated from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the ICRC.

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Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Over 100 midwives in Liberia have undergone intensive training over the past six months to improve the primary health care provided to child bearing women and newborn babies.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is holding an international meeting of experts on cluster munitions from 18 to 20 April in Montreux, Switzerland.

The ICRC is closing its office in Zagreb, Croatia after 16 years of continuous presence in the country.

The ICRC is stepping up its assistance for displaced people in Somalia: in the past month alone, it has provided more than 135,000 individuals with water, shelter, clothing, blankets and basic household items such as mats, kitchen sets and jerrycans.

On 5 and 6 April 2007 the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (RAU) and the ICRC delegation in Armenia are organizing in Yerevan the International Scientific Students' Conference "International humanitarian law: problems and perspectives of development".

The ICRC and Palestine Red Crescent are taking emergency action to help avert a new disaster, following the collapse of a sewage reservoir on 27 March that wrecked some 250 homes.

Geneva (ICRC) – The population of Mogadishu is caught up in the worst fighting in more than 15 years.

Geneva (ICRC) – Colombia's internal armed conflict is one of the longest-running in modern history and continues to take a heavy toll on the country's civilian population.

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Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is approaching international donors to cover an increase of 32 million Swiss francs in its budget for Darfur.

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Wednesday 7 March 2007 is a day 14-year-old Ndayisenga will remember for the rest of her life. It was the day she saw her family again after twelve years of separation

The ICRC is in the process of transporting 10,000 tonnes of apples from the occupied Golan into Syria proper.

The ICRC has started the final round of coaching sessions for beneficiaries of its agricultural projects in western Georgia.

Nairobi/Geneva (ICRC) – During the month of February armed clashes in Mogadishu have increased in frequency and intensity, leaving dozens of people dead and many wounded and driving civilians from their homes.

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Geneva/Conakry (ICRC) – Deeply concerned by the situation in Guinea, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on all those involved in the violence that is rocking the country to show restraint and respect the basic principles of humanity.

An explosion occurred at 04.20 local time today in the compound of the International Committee of the Red Cross sub-delegation in Peshawar, north-western Pakistan.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC's delegation in Moscow

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Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

The ICRC held a seminar on war surgery for specialized national medical personnel, working both in civilian and military hospitals.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC's delegation in Tel Aviv

The Lebanese Red Cross, in partnership with the Norwegian Red Cross, is holding a meeting in Tyre from 1 to 3 February to discuss global humanitarian concerns related to the use of cluster munitions.

Kampala (ICRC) – Some 55,500 children are being treated by the ICRC against intestinal parasites in a four-week campaign in northern Uganda.

A total of 372 civilians have been repatriated from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the ICRC.

Kathmandu (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called for medical personnel and medical transports in Nepal to be spared in all circumstances.

Over the past few weeks, the ICRC improved the water and sanitation infrastructure of 21 primary health care centres (PHCC), in three governorates (Salaheddine, Kerbala and Diwaniya).

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Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

ICRC delegates recently completed a series of visits to people held in detention facilities in Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste.

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Geneva/Colombo (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the recent death and injury to civilians caused by two attacks on civilian buses in Galle and Gampaha districts.

The ICRC in Lebanon has recently completed seven major water repair and rehabilitation projects in the south of the country and the Bekaa valley.

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Luanda, 29.12.06 (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will close its office in Bié province by the end of 2006, ending more than two and a half decades of ICRC presence in the city of Kuito.

Press release issued by the ICRC delegation in Bogotá, Colombia, on 27 December 2006

Geneva (ICRC) – The worst fighting in a decade in central and southern Somalia has caused hundreds of casualties and is forcing thousands to flee their homes towards safer ground.

Geneva (ICRC) - On 23 December 2006, an Azerbaijani serviceman, previously detained in Nagorny Karabakh, was handed over to the Azerbaijani authorities under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Geneva (ICRC) – The armed clashes that broke out earlier this week around the town of Baidoa, 250 km northwest of the capital Mogadishu, have claimed dozens of lives and driven many civilians from their homes.

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On Sunday 17 December a number of Iraqi Red Crescent Society staff and volunteers and other persons were abducted from one of the Society’s offices in Baghdad. As of today, some have been released, but many are still being held.

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called today for the immediate and unconditional release of all persons abducted from one of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society offices in Baghdad.

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Geneva/Moscow/Grozny (ICRC) – On 17 December the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will hold a ceremony in the Chechen village of Novye Atagi to mark the 10th anniversary of the brutal murder of six of its delegates there.

During a round table meeting held by the ICRC in the Jordanian capital Amman from 11 to 13 December, 16 representatives of non-governmental organizations and associations from all over Iraq met to discuss the effects of armed conflict on women in Iraq.

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A workshop on the techniques used to recover and identify human remains is being held by the ICRC, together with Abkhaz specialists, in Sukhumi from 11 to 15 December.

Unidentified armed men last night attempted to force their way into a house used by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as a staff residence in Kutum, Northern Darfur.

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Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

In response to fighting that broke out in the southern Sudanese town of Malakal on 27 November between the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Sudanese armed forces, the ICRC has delivered dressing material to the 400-bed Malakal hospital and offered its services as a neutral intermediary to both sides.

A three-week training of professional police trainers on international humanitarian law (IHL) ended today at the headquarters campus of the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC) in Fort Bonifacio.

Geneva/Teheran (ICRC) – Over one hundred scholars and experts in Islamic law from Iran and other countries in the region took part in a conference on Islam and international humanitarian law held in Qom on 29 and 30 November.

Geneva/Baghdad (ICRC) – As scores of civilians continue to be killed on a daily basis in Iraq, the ICRC strongly condemns deliberate attacks against civilians.

One of the ICRC's largest projects in this region ended this week with the completion of repairs to the Republican Hospital in Tskhinvali in the Georgia/South Ossetia conflict zone.

Gertrude, aged 18, was recently reunited with her mother after 10 years.

A three-day marathon of international legal debate has just ended, with over 30 students and their coaches representing nine law schools from across the Philippines.

A study led by the ICRC identifying 161 rules of customary international humanitarian law (IHL) was launched at a ceremony today in Moscow.

Geneva (ICRC) – The two Italian Red Cross staff members abducted on 21 November in the southern Gaza Strip were released unharmed nine hours later.

A workshop on the topic "The national commission and the implementation of international humanitarian law in Chad" is being held in N'Djamena today and tomorrow.

Geneva (ICRC) – Two Italian Red Cross staff members were abducted by unknown persons at 3.30 p.m. local time today while travelling in a vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at Mahfouza junction, in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis.

Geneva/Tel Aviv (ICRC) – A growing number of households in the Palestinian territories are becoming impoverished, according to a report recently completed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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Twenty-five battalion commanders, political commissars and intelligence officers from the Third Division of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) will take part in a course on international humanitarian law from 16 to 18 November in Mbale.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today chaired the 29th meeting of the Tripartite Commission to ascertain the fate of persons missing in connection with the 1990-1991 Gulf War.

Geneva / Tel Aviv (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the interruption of essential health services available until now to the Palestinian population living in the West Bank.

Geneva / Tel Aviv (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the large number of civilian deaths and casualties caused by an attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip today and calls on Israel to respect its obligations under international humanitarian law.

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The ICRC delegation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is holding a two-day seminar on 3-4 November, in Sarajevo, for 30 interns of the War Crimes Chamber of the State Court and its Registry.

Geneva/Islamabad (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has taken part in the welcome for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall in the earthquake-struck area of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

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The ICRC sub-delegation in Kenema will close on the last day of October after 15 years of protecting and assisting people in southeast Sierra Leone, both during and after the armed conflict there.

Over 50,000 people living in the Pabbo camp for displaced Ugandans have seen their daily water ration increase by eight litres per person.

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The ICRC has facilitated the repatriation of 433 civilians between Ethiopia and Eritrea, including 22 unaccompanied minors.

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Latest Report on ICRC activities in the field

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Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Geneva/Baghdad (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed its first visit to people held under American authority at the newly extended Camp Cropper internment facility in Baghdad.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Colombo on September 30 2006

The Faculty of Political Science (FPS) in Belgrade has for the third time hosted students from across the former Yugoslavia at a regional course on international humanitarian law.

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A two-day seminar on the implementation of International Humanitarian Law Treaties in West Africa took place in Abuja on 27-28 September 2006, jointly organized by the ECOWAS Secretariat and the ICRC.

During the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the ICRC is distributing food parcels for destitute families in Iraq.

The ICRC has just finished building a new pharmacy and storeroom for the 185-bed Kitgum Government Hospital in conjunction with the Ministry of Health.

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Two ICRC staff members abducted by an armed group in south-eastern Ethiopia were released unharmed at 2.30 p.m. local time today. The two men were handed over to an ICRC team north of Gode in Ethiopia's Somali Regional State.

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Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate, with crossing points closed most of the time

For the new school year, starting on 1 September in the Russian Federation, the ICRC is distributing autumn clothes, shoes and school kits for children of families that have been affected by the conflict in Chechnya.

Between 18 and 25 August 2006, twenty-one Liberian and Ivorian children separated from their families due to conflicts in the sub-region returned to their homes under the auspices of the ICRC.

On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), the ICRC regrets that one of the most serious humanitarian problems caused by armed conflict – the fate of missing persons and the suffering of their families – still remains.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has learned that one of its staff members, a 31-year-old Sudanese national, was killed east of the Jebel Marra mountains in North Darfur after being abducted.

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In the Balkans there remain thousands of persons still unaccounted for as a result of the former conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo. Of the more than 33,000 missing persons for whom tracing requests have been submitted to the ICRC since the outbreak of hostilities, 18,555 remain unaccounted for today – 13,862 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2,409 from Croatia and 2,284 from Kosovo respectively.

Geneva (ICRC) – As a result of the increased violence in Sri Lanka in recent weeks, a significant number of people have been displaced in the east and north of the country.

Colombo / Geneva (ICRC) – More than 150 persons evacuated from the Jaffna peninsula by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have arrived in the capital, Colombo.

Violent clashes between the parties to the conflict, threats to the civilian population and the death of two community leaders has caused dozens of families to flee their homes in north-eastern Colombia.

Colombo / Geneva (ICRC) – A ferry flying the flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) left the port of Trincomalee at 10 a.m. today, heading for Jaffna.

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Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

During the past week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) completed a series of rehabilitation works in water stations and health facilities and handed them over to the relevant authorities in various Governorates.

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Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Geneva (ICRC) – On 17 August three Armenian civilians were handed over to the Armenian authorities under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The operation took place on the road between the Azerbaijani town of Gazakh and the Armenian town of Ijevan.

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Some 60,000 children living in more than 10 camps for internally displaced people in northern Uganda’s Kitgum and Pader districts are benefiting from a two-week-long deworming campaign currently being carried out by the ICRC.

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Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the heavy impact of hostilities on civilians and on Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) emergency medical personnel and assets.

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Geneva (ICRC) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, today concluded a four-day visit to war-torn Lebanon and Israel during which he pressed the warring parties to spare civilian lives and infrastructure and to better respect the rules of warfare as enshrined in international humanitarian law.

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Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by the increasing number of civilian casualties resulting from the ongoing armed conflict.

Geneva (ICRC) – Since hostilities began on 12 July, the conflict has displaced huge numbers of people. While phone lines are generally working, allowing families to keep in touch, the number of people inside and outside Lebanon trying to find their relatives is increasing as the conflict continues.

Geneva (ICRC) – With no end in sight for the hostilities in Lebanon and civilian casualties rising daily, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is appealing today for 100 million Swiss Francs to sharply step up the humanitarian work it is carrying out for the victims of the armed conflict together with its partner the Lebanese Red Cross.

First rescue operation and aid distribution in Rmeish and other villages

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Geneva / Tel Aviv (ICRC) – During a military operation in Nablus that began on the night of 18 July, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) occupied the premises of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), blocking the entrance and hindering the movement of ambulances, patients and staff.

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Geneva (ICRC) – The last half of 2005 and the first months of 2006 saw the emergence in the north of the Central African Republic (CAR) of armed groups opposed to the government.

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Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed about the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is gravely concerned about the plight of civilians caught up in hostilities in Lebanon and Israel.

The ICRC has completed a food and agriculture programme in 23 villages of the "confidence zone," situated southeast of Bouaké.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field - Working between waves of armed conflict and natural disaster

Brigitte and her twin brothers Gato and Gakuru are back together with their father after 12 years.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Addis Ababa on 4 July 2006.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the humanitarian consequences of the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip in recent days.

Nairobi/Khartoum/Geneva (ICRC) – Today, the Lopiding hospital in Lokichokio (northern Kenya), which provided southern Sudan with war surgery and emergency medical care for 19 years, will be handed over to the Kenyan authorities by the ICRC.

Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mr Jakob Kellenberger, arrived in Paris today for talks with Mr Philippe Douste-Blazy, minister of foreign affairs, and Ms Michèle Alliot-Marie, minister of defence.

The first-ever burn-management seminar to be held in the southern Philippines is opening today at the Zamboanga City Medical Centre.

The ICRC is alarmed by the humanitarian situation in various parts of Iraq. Recent reports about very acute water and power shortages are of particular concern.

Geneva/Colombo (ICRC) – The number of civilian casualties caused by explosive devices in northern and eastern Sri Lanka has sharply increased in recent weeks.

Geneva (ICRC) – An Iranian detainee previously held at the US-run internment facility at Bagram airfield in Afghanistan was repatriated to Tehran last night under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Today Luiza Magomedova (not her real name) will start a long journey from the Chechen capital Grozny to a remote village in far eastern Russia to visit her husband in a prison colony there. "I haven't seen him for seven years," she says.

On 12 June South African Deputy Foreign Minister Sue van der Merwe opened the sixth annual regional seminar on the implementation of international humanitarian law in Pretoria.

A team of water and habitat specialists from the ICRC and staff from the Timor Leste Red Cross today visited the town of Baucau, 160 km east of Dili, to assess the needs of some 16,000 people who have fled there from the violence in the capital.

The ICRC has started distributing seed and tools this week to 25,000 displaced people in eastern Chad. The operation will be completed by the end of next week, just in time for the planting season and before the rains make it difficult to reach the area.

ICRC staff have completed the latest round of aid distributions to people still suffering the effects of years of armed conflict in Liberia. The distributions, which began in February, ended last week, having helped some 37,500 households (225,000 people) regain the ability to feed themselves.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Baghdad

Following recent incidents, the ICRC has called on parties to the conflict to refrain from targeting humanitarian workers.

Islamabad/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today formally handed over its 100-bed field hospital in Muzaffarabad to the Ministry of Health of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

The ICRC is taking part in a two-day conference in Addis Ababa entitled Violence against Girls in Africa.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Somali Red Crescent Society are extremely concerned about the consequences in humanitarian terms of the intense armed clashes currently under way in Mogadishu.

A brand new series of eight-minute films has been produced by ICRC for television broadcast and viewing online.

This press release was issued by the ICRC delegation in Bogota.

The earthquake on 8 October destroyed many agricultural assets in Pakistan-administered Kashmir such as tools, seeds and animals.

N’Djamena/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has followed with concern the events of 13 April 2006 in N’Djamena and Adré.

The ICRC has facilitated the repatriation of more than 170 civilians between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Health care – or the lack of it – is one of the major problems facing victims of last October’s earthquake.

Geneva (ICRC) – Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has arrived in Azerbaijan for a two-day visit at the invitation of the Azerbaijani government.

On 24 March an Armenian prisoner of war detained in Azerbaijan was repatriated under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

This press release was issued by the ICRC delegation in Kinshasa.

Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories following the attack by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on the prison in Jericho and the abduction of civilians by Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip. The civilians abducted included humanitarian workers and an ICRC delegate, who was later released.

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Geneva (ICRC) – A delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who was abducted at the organization's office in Khan Younis earlier today was released without conditions this evening.

Geneva (ICRC) – A delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was abducted by unknown armed men at the ICRC office in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, around 1.30 p.m. local time today.

On 9 March 2006, the ICRC's regional delegation for Southern Africa organised a seminar on the national implementation of international humanitarian law (IHL) for over 40 members of Namibia's national assembly, as well as senior officials from key national offices and ministries.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Kathmandu on 09 March 2006.

The working group on persons unaccounted for in connection with the events that took place in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000 concluded its fifth meeting in Pristina on 9 March 2006.

Islamabad/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirms that around noon today local time one of its Puma helicopters crashed near the Muzaffarabad heliport in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

The ICRC and the Philippines Red Cross Society have organized a joint symposium in March 2006 exploring issues related to disaster victim identification.

In February 2006, the ICRC’s regional delegation for Southern Africa completed a mine risk education course for Angolan refugees in the Republic of Namibia.

Geneva/Kuwait (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, today concluded a visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Khartoum on 21 February 2006

New Delhi/Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC's Geneva-based Director of Operations, Pierre Krähenbühl is today completing a visit to New Delhi during which he held talks with the Foreign and Home Secretaries and representatives of the Defence Ministry.

Nairobi/Geneva - The Horn of Africa's worst drought in a decade has led to acute shortages of water and food, decimated grazing lands and cereal production, and killed large numbers of cattle in the worst affected parts of southern Somalia and in the Somali Regional State in south-eastern Ethiopia.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Kathmandu on 11 February 2006

Since the beginning of February heavy rainfalls have flooded large areas of Iraq, mainly in the Northern Governorates, and displaced hundreds of families already living in a precarious situation.

The ICRC published the seventh edition of the Book of Missing Persons on the Territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina today as part of its ongoing efforts to tackle one of the most serious humanitarian issues in the country.

A week has passed since an MI-8 helicopter operated by Turkmenistan Airlines and chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross for its earthquake relief operations in Pakistan went missing after taking off from the Pakistani city of Peshawar for its home base in Turkmenabad, Turkmenistan.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Moscow

Islamabad (ICRC) – A helicopter chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for its earthquake relief operations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir went missing on 20 January.

A new water main that will benefit more than 2,000 people will be officially opened today in Psedakh, a village in Ingushetia where a number of displaced persons from Chechnya live.

The ICRC suspended its activities in the Pool department of the Republic of the Congo on 11 January 2006 for an indefinite period owing to the recurrence of security incidents in the area over the previous three months.

Geneva (ICRC) – On 18 January one Armenian prisoner of war previously detained in Azerbaijan was repatriated under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

On 21 December the ICRC reunited 15 Liberian minors with relatives, several years after armed conflict forced them to flee into Sierra Leone, where they lost contact with those at home

Geneva (ICRC) - On15 December, an Armenian woman who accidentally crossed from Armenia into Azerbaijan at the beginning of the month was repatriated under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC's delegation in Freetown.

Nearly 4,000 internally displaced people in the Gulu and Pader districts of northern Uganda - already ravaged by nearly 20 years of armed conflict - had all their belongings destroyed and were left without shelter by fires at the end of November.

The working group on persons still missing in connection with the events in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000 met today in Pristina. The closed session focused on how to improve the functioning of the working group in view of its limited results so far.

A conference was held in Addis Ababa last week to discuss how women combatants can help promote humanitarian and human rights norms.

Geneva (ICRC) - Years of armed conflict and internal disturbances in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea have left thousands of people without news of their families, including innumerable children who became separated from their parents in the midst of the chaos.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement today welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the Magen David Adom (MDA).

The Sudanese Ministry of Health, the Sudan Medical Association, the Sudanese Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the ICRC have jointly organized a war-surgery seminar for medical professionals in Sudan - the fourth to be held in the country to date.

The ICRC has expressed concern that 10 years after the signing of the Dayton peace agreement the fate of some 14,000 persons missing in connection with the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina remains unresolved.

Yesterday the ICRC facilitated the release and safe return of 12 members of the Sudanese military and police forces detained by the Sudanese Liberation Army in South Darfur.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Brazzaville

Geneva (ICRC) – The ICRC today chaired the 28th meeting of the Tripartite Commission to ascertain the fate of persons missing in connection with the 1990-1991 Gulf War.

Today the Red Crescent Society of Azerbaijan will open newly constructed safe play areas for children from Evoglu and Garadaghly villages near Agdam.

Team from Baku State University wins second national moot court competition

On 11 November 2005, 298 Ethiopian civilians were repatriated from Eritrea to Ethiopia under ICRC auspices. The group included 8 unaccompanied minors, 2 elderly persons and 2 sick persons who were returning home to their families.

Geneva (ICRC) – On 2 November, an Armenian civilian previously detained in Azerbaijan was repatriated under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Geneva (ICRC) – A 100-bed field hospital was opened in Muzaffarabad today by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Its first patient was a girl with a broken and badly infected leg, a type of injury all too frequent as a result of the earthquake.

Geneva/Khartoum (ICRC) – A total of 176 detainees were released today in eastern Sudan by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Geneva (ICRC) – Saturday’s earthquake in South Asia has left tens of thousands dead or missing.

On 6 October the ICRC will be chairing the next session of the working group on persons who are unaccounted for in connection with events in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000.

Geneva (ICRC) – At its meeting of 22 September last, the International Committee of the Red Cross recognized the Comoros Red Crescent Society as the 182nd member Society of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Geneva (ICRC) – Spain’s director-general of books, archives and libraries, Rogelio Blanco Martínez, and the deputy director-general of the state archives, José Ramón Cruz Mundet are today visiting the Geneva headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The ICRC is transferring the data contained on its website www.familylinks.icrc.org/katrina to the American Red Cross, at whose request the data will be registered on the website www.katrinasafe.org.

The ICRC and the Ugandan government have signed two Memoranda of Understanding on training services.

Geneva/Khartoum (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today facilitated the release and return of three persons held by the Eastern Front opposition group.

By the morning of Monday 5 September Geneva time, the Red Cross webpage for victims of Hurricane Katrina had registered over 65,000 names.

The ICRC has completed a series of food distributions to help those returning to their homes in the east of the country.

Geneva (ICRC) – Thousands of people in the United States and elsewhere have lost contact with loved ones following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

More than 800 people were reportedly crushed to death or drowned in the Tigris river on 31 August when panic spread through the thousands of pilgrims who were marching towards the Kadhimiya mosque in northern Baghdad to honour the shrine of Imam Musa Kadhim.

Geneva (ICRC) – On Wednesday, 24 August 2005, one Azerbaijani serviceman previously detained in Armenia was repatriated under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Geneva (ICRC) – Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have started visits to persons detained following disturbances that occurred in the Maldives’ capital, Male, on 12 and 13 August.

The ICRC today returned to its field activities in the Gaza Strip after a temporary suspension following the 7 August shooting at its office in Khan Yunis.

This press release was issued by the ICRC delegation in Sana'a on August 12 2005

Last week the ICRC repatriated seven unaccompanied children from Guinea to Sierra Leone by road and reunited them with their families in various parts of the country.

Geneva (ICRC) – The office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Grozny is suspending its work today for one day. It has been two years since Usman Saidaliev, one of the ICRC's employees in Chechnya, disappeared.

The ICRC today published a detailed assessment of the plight of particularly vulnerable internally displaced people from Kosovo who are now living in Serbia and Montenegro proper.

Last week the ICRC and Azerbaijan's National Agency for Mine Action held a four-day workshop near Baku to raise awareness of the risk posed by mines. The event was part of an ICRC project to create safe play areas in villages near former conflict zones in Azerbaijan.

A total of 163 Eritrean and five Ethiopian civilians were repatriated to their respective countries under ICRC auspices on 10 June

A rapidly deteriorating security situation in Southern Darfur has prompted the ICRC to deploy a surgical team to care for the wounded.

The working group on persons missing in connection with events in Kosovo met today in Pristina.

The ICRC has just completed the bulk of repairs to the water supply systems of four towns – Adré, Tiné, Iriba and Abéché – situated in an area of Chad that has been severely affected by the presence of thousands of Sudanese refugees.

Kathmandu (ICRC) – On 6 June 2005, eight security personnel were released by the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoists (CPN-M) - and handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Following the very serious acts of violence that took place in the night of 31 May to 1 June in villages near Duékoué, the ICRC is most concerned about a spiral of insecurity that is having an increasing impact on people in the western part of Côte d’Ivoire.

Food supplies in the stricken Darfur region continue to run critically low.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC's regional delegation in Harare.

This week, the ICRC and the Yemeni Red Crescent Society (YRCS) have been working on improved access to clean water for people living in Marran, Saada province, who were affected by last year’s fighting.

Acting as a neutral intermediary, the ICRC has taken part in the process of releasing 400 Palestinian detainees from Israeli places of detention and returning them to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Next week the ICRC will convene a new session of the working group on persons who are unaccounted for in connection with events in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000.

The emergency field hospital of the ICRC and the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) at Lhong Raya stadium in Banda Aceh has closed after operating for four months.

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A seminar on war surgery organized by the ICRC is currently taking place (May 23-29) in Sochi, in south-west Russia. Thirty-one surgeons from the Russian Federation (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, North Ossetia), Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are attending.

Geneva/Kuwait (ICRC) – Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), concluded a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia yesterday evening.

Yesterday the ICRC began providing aid for 312 families living in rural areas affected by the recent flooding in Chechnya.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC's regional delegation in Harare.

On 12 May the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) and the ICRC finished distributing relief items to 500 families affected by the floods caused by last week's heavy rains in the Somali Regional State.

On 7 May 2005 the International Committee of the Red Cross, acting as a neutral intermediary, facilitated the transfer of three Azerbaijani servicemen previously detained in Nagorny Karabakh and handed them over to the Azerbaijani authorities.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was saddened to learn of the killing on 1 May of two members of the Sudanese Red Crescent Society by unidentified individuals who fired at their ambulance in the area of Kassala, east of Khartoum.

This presse release was issued by the ICRC delegation in Kathmandu

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC's Sarajevo delegation on 29 April 2005

Geneva (ICRC) – Following a constructive dialogue, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Tunisian authorities signed an agreement on 26 April governing the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Tunisia.

Togo descended into violence on 26 April following the announcement that the candidate of the governing party had won the presidential election held two days before.

The following was released as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Sana'a.

ICRC activities in Aceh province

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This press release was issued by the ICRC delegation in Yerevan

A war-surgery seminar held by the ICRC from 5 to 7 April was attended by 14 surgeons and other doctors and clinical and orthopaedic personnel from government, missionary and military hospitals in the Gulu, Pader and Kitgum districts of northern Uganda.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC in Bishkek on 7 April

Freetown (ICRC) – Some 400 former Liberian fighters began returning home today from internment in Sierra Leone’s Mape and Mafanta Camps.

Every year, three million people die of tuberculosis (TB). Prisoners are particularly exposed: they tend to come from society’s poorest and hence more vulnerable sectors, and prison conditions foster the spread of the disease.

ICRC activities to help tsunami victims

The Working Group on persons unaccounted for in relation to the events in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000 met today at the Federal Palace in Belgrade.

The following was released as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Baku on March 15 2005.

"It's hard, but we have no choice." The speaker is a young mother of two living near Indanan on the tropical island of Jolo in the Sulu archipelago, in the south-west of the Philippines.

Geneva/Belgrade/Pristina (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been informed that a postponement of the meeting of the Working Group on Missing Persons in Kosovo planned for 10 March 2005 has been requested by the Pristina delegation to the Working Group.

Geneva (ICRC) – Their Majesties King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia today paid an official visit to the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva. After welcoming the king and queen, ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger introduced them to members of the Committee and senior ICRC staff.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Yerevan on March 4 2005.

ICRC activities to help tsunami victims

The ICRC has come to the aid of a number of victims of a serious incident on 24 February near Pader, in northern Uganda. An armed group, apparently from the rebel Lord's Resistance Army, ambushed a Uganda Peoples' Defence Force vehicle carrying civilians as well as military personnel.

On 19 February, at the request of a military wing of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), the ICRC facilitated the release of four civilians held by the group for the past month.

On 25 February 2005, 160 Ethiopian civilians were repatriated from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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Monrovia (ICRC) – Anxious to play an active role in helping Liberians return to villages they once fled to escape fighting, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has distributed tools to more than 65,000 families living in 1,300 villages.

ICRC activities to help tsunami victims

Belgrade/Pristina (ICRC) – On 10 March the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will convene a meeting of the Working Group on persons unaccounted for in relation to the events in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Kigali on 22 February 2005.

Acting as a neutral intermediary, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today monitored the release process of 500 Palestinian detainees from Israeli detention places to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, has arrived in Jakarta for talks with the Indonesian authorities.

Geneva/Manila (ICRC) – For the past 30 years the Philippines has been the scene of violence opposing various armed groups and government forces.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Harare on February 18, 2005.

Geneva/Washington (ICRC) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, today had talks in Washington with US president George Bush.

Khartoum (ICRC) -The Government of Sudan and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding today on the rules and principles governing the release and transfer of persons detained in relation to the armed conflict in southern Sudan.

Afghanistan is currently experiencing its coldest winter in years, with icy conditions, heavy snow, and reports of people dying from cold in the tented squatter camps scattered around the capital, Kabul.

Geneva/Kathmandu (ICRC) – For the past nine years Nepal has been steeped in violence and more than 10,000 lives have been lost to date.

ICRC's activities on behalf of the tsunami victims

ICRC's activities on behalf of the tsunami victims

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Between 11 and 20 January the ICRC distributed over 2,000 tonnes of food to some 10,000 families in central Somalia and Puntland.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be represented at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the World Social Forum (WSF), which both begin today.

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The ICRC has conducted a one-week course on international humanitarian law for officers in the security forces of several southern African nations.

The inhabitants of the Cité-Soleil shantytown in Port-au-Prince suffer extreme economic and social deprivation, as well as being exposed to sporadic outbursts of armed violence.

A 100-bed ICRC field hospital opened in Banda Aceh earlier this week.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply shocked and dismayed by the death of one of its staff members west of Baghdad.

Sri Lanka is one of the countries that suffered most from the recent tsunami.

The ICRC has taken part in the release of 165 Palestinian detainees to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Ethiopian Federal Police Commission and the ICRC have held a two-day workshop on "Problems and solutions relating to the respect of human rights in the criminal justice system".

Geneva (ICRC) - On 19 and 20 December, in its capacity as a neutral intermediary, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) repatriated 28 Iranian nationals from Iraq.

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This press release was issued by the ICRC delegation in Burundi.

In November 2004 four seminars for a total of 96 teachers were held in South Ossetia within the framework of the ICRC's educational programme for international humanitarian law.

On 26 November, 200 Ethiopian civilians were repatriated from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the ICRC. The group crossed the border at the Mereb river bridge, between the towns of Adi Quala in Eritrea and Rama in Ethiopia. Among those repatriated were eight children and three sick persons returning to their families in Ethiopia.

Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been regularly visiting the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay since early 2002 for the purpose of monitoring that persons held there are treated in accordance with applicable international laws and standards.

Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, arrives in Khartoum this evening for what will be his second visit to Sudan this year.

Seven years after the Convention banning anti-personnel mines was adopted, the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World (29 November - 3 December) will bring together leaders of the 143 States party to the Convention to assess progress towards ending the suffering these abhorrent weapons cause.

The ICRC and the Azerbaijan Young Lawyers' Union (AYLU) have organized their first national Moot Count Competition on international humanitarian law.

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On 29 October, the ICRC completed a series of flights that returned 85 unaccompanied children to their families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A million and a half people in northern and western Côte d'Ivoire have been without electricity for the past week.

Geneva/Moscow (ICRC) – The director of operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Pierre Krähenbühl, has arrived in Moscow for talks with the Russian authorities.

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Geneva (ICRC) -- The ICRC reminds all those involved in the armed confrontations in Iraq that international humanitarian law prohibits the killing or harming of civilians who are not directly taking part in the hostilities.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the resumption of hostilities in Côte d’Ivoire and their dramatic consequences for the people of that country.

The first of a planned six safe-play areas to be built in Chechnya with the support of the ICRC opened today in the Staropromislovski district of Grozny.

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The ICRC is deeply concerned about the riots that have raged in the Liberian capital since Thursday night and resulted in loss of life, injury and destruction of property.

Report on ICRC activities in the field since the previous bulletin of 22 October

The following press release was issued by the ICRC delegation in Bangkok on 28 October 2004

The ICRC continues its efforts to raise awareness and understanding of international humanitarian law across Africa. In the continent’s most populous nation Nigeria, for example, the organization recently organized two events in conjunction with federal authorities.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Tashkent on 7 October 2004

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Diplomats, officers from the Zimbabwean army, air force, police and prison service, and other senior civil servants attended an ICRC presentation on international humanitarian law on 7 October.

The ICRC has repatriated seven Liberian children aged between 2 and 18, allowing them to be reunited with their families.

A seminar entitled "Media reporting on humanitarian issues in conflict areas" was held in Kuala Lumpur on 7 October.

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Monrovia (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reunited 644 children with their families – some after a separation of several years – since the civil war ended in Liberia in August 2003.

Geneva/New Delhi (ICRC) - On the 5th of October the ICRC and the government of the Maldives signed a memorandum of understanding granting the ICRC access to all persons arrested and detained in the country.

Kuwait - on 5 October 2004 five Iraqi nationals released by the Kuwaiti authorities were repatriated to their home country under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The ICRC's mine-action team in Kabul has produced a new safety leaflet intended mainly for Afghans returning to the country from Iran and Pakistan.

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The ICRC is deeply concerned about the effects of the violence that has taken place in the Gaza Strip and Israel in the last few days.

Geneva (ICRC) – Following the passage of tropical storm Jeanne through Haiti, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been informed of hundreds of persons who have died or are missing.

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Geneva (ICRC): Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway were received by ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger today at ICRC headquarters. The royal couple are on a two-day visit to Geneva to familiarize themselves with the work of humanitarian organizations based in the city.

Khartoum (ICRC) - On 18 September, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) handed over to the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) eight people who had been held by the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA). The group included HAC employees and Sudanese journalists who had been held since 18 August

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The ICRC today furnished hospitals in Beslan and Vladikavkaz with medical equipment and supplies worth some $50,000 to cope with needs of the hundreds of people still hospitalized after last week’s hostage-taking in North Ossetia.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

From 4 to 7 September the ICRC organized the distribution of non-food aid for over 5,200 families in the Fizi region in South Kivu.

As the full scale of the tragedy unfolds, ICRC teams this morning continued to bring aid to the hospitals treating the victims of the hostage taking.

Today ICRC staff assisted the hospital in Beslan and the paediatric facility in Vladikavkaz with medical supplies to treat the wounded who are currently being evacuated from the scene of the hostage-taking.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

MONROVIA (ICRC) - The ICRC has begun new operations in the rural county of River Cess and in southeastern Liberia to repair and upgrade wells, install new hand pumps, build latrines and distribute essential items to needy families during the current rainy season.

The ICRC has returned 13 children to their families in Liberia.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

The ICRC has continued to conduct its activities in Israeli places of detention during the current hunger strike by Palestinian security detainees. In particular, over the last 10 days the organization has begun a round of visits to all prisons housing detainees on strike, while maintaining close contact with their families and groups representing them.

The ICRC has delivered 10 pumping units to Regideso (the water authority for urban areas) for treating the water at the Tshopo plant. These units, which will be used for dosing chemicals and adding lime to the water, will guarantee the city's water supply.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

The ICRC has distributed essential supplies to some 11,000 displaced families in southern and south-western Somalia.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) and the ICRC have just concluded a training course in Tehran on awareness of mines and explosive remnants of war.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

The ICRC has renovated eight power pumps in Kinshasa: four at the N’Djili spring catchment and four at the Kingabwa water works. The pumps were restarted on 28 July in the presence of the DRC’s energy minister.

Kabul’s Karte Seh Surgical Hospital, which had been supported by the ICRC since its founding over 16 years ago, closed on 31 July. Some 63,000 patients received treatment in the facility.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

The Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERCS), with assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is providing tents, food parcels, hygiene installations and fans to over 2500 people stranded on the Egyptian side of the closed Rafah Terminal, on the southern border of the Gaza Strip.

Geneva/Moscow (ICRC) - The offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Moscow, Nalchik, Grozny and other parts of the northern Caucasus will suspend their work today to mark the first anniversary of the disappearance of one of its staff member in Chechnya.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

On 14 July the ICRC carried out two operations to help victims of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in close cooperation with that country’s National Red Cross Society.

Armed clashes and threats to the civilian population from armed groups have led to a mass displacement of peasants in the north-east and east of Colombia.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Central Hospital No. 1 in Gudermes (Chechnya) reopened on 6 July following major repairs financed by the ICRC. Work included rebuilding the surgical department, trauma department and laundry and restoring the hospital's water supply.

Latest report on ICRC activities on the field

The ICRC has been particularly active in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, since an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation began there on 29 June.

The ICRC awarded its Press Prize at the 44th Monte Carlo Television Festival on 3 July to director Daniel Pera, journalist Andrés Luque and cameraman Jesús Mata of the Spanish television network TVE for their documentary entitled Perú, la verdad sobre el espanto (Peru: the truth about the horror).

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has just launched a Portuguese-language version of its website. By going to www.icrc.org and clicking on “Português”, visitors to the site can find out about the ICRC’s operations in almost 80 countries and can consult on line some of the main treaties, conventions and protocols that make up international humanitarian law, which governs the conduct of armed conflict and protects individuals not – or no longer – taking part in hostilities.

A few weeks ago, 12-year-old Taha and nine-year-old Alida were tending cattle in the family fields adjacent to the village of Kunar, in northern Pakistan near the “line of control” between Pakistan-controlled and Indian-controlled Kashmir.

On 23 and 24 June, an ICRC aircraft made two flights to bring a total of 37 children – including six demobilized child-soldiers – back to their families.

The board of John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Monrovia today took over full responsibility for the facility’s trauma-surgery unit, which has been run jointly with the ICRC since it opened nearly two years ago.

Latest report on ICRC activities on the field

Geneva (ICRC) – Despite increased security threats, independent and neutral humanitarian action continues to help and protect millions of people affected by armed conflicts. As illustrated in the 2003 Annual Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), this fact holds true for armed conflicts such as the one in Iraq, which attracted most public attention over the year, but also numerous other war zones across the globe where the ICRC was active.

Women Facing War, an ICRC photo exhibition that first opened in Amman at the end of 2002 under the auspices of Queen Rania of Jordan and has since travelled to Beirut, Geneva and Paris, will be shown in Monaco, in Grimaldi Forum during the 44th Monte Carlo Television Festival.

Geneva (ICRC) – On 23 June, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) repatriated 100 Moroccan prisoners freed by the Polisario Front.

More than 200 doctors, surgeons, interns and nurses have been invited to take part in two conferences organized by the ICRC in Haiti.

Geneva (ICRC) –There has recently been a degree of publicly expressed confusion regarding the future of persons currently deprived of their freedom in Iraq.

An international seminar entitled “The Law of Armed Conflict Today: Realities, Perspectives and Training” took place from 7 to 9 June at the Academy of Politics of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the ancient capital of Xi’an.

Geneva (ICRC) – Courage and determination are the themes for the Cairo stage of the Olympic torch run on 11 June. An Afghan mine victim will be carrying the Olympic torch on its long journey to Athens. Najmuddin will be running on behalf of many thousands of mine victims in dozens of countries around the world who have overcome terrible injury to rebuild their lives.

The ICRC and Israel's Magen David Adom society have extended their cooperation agreements, first signed in 2003. The accords include emergency medical services, tracing and cooperation within the International Movement.

Budapest (ICRC) – Today, 340 anti-personnel mines were blown up when Antanas Valionis, Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs, pushed a button at a mine-destruction ceremony held at Pabradë military range in Lithuania.

Geneva (ICRC) – Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), will meet Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer in Maroochydore on 4 June.

The Red Cross is concerned about the threat of further mudslides in the Mapou region of southern Haiti.

The ICRC has been particularly active in Rafah since a large-scale Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation began there on 17 May. The organization formed a special operational unit to help to ensure availability of health care and water and to respond to other needs arising from the destruction of houses.

Tel Aviv 19.05.04 (ICRC): Following the intensification of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operations in the Gaza Strip on 18 and 19 May in Rafah, in which numerous civilians were killed and many more wounded, the ICRC calls for respect for international humanitarian law and condemns deliberate attacks against civilians who do not take directly part in hostilities. Such attacks are prohibited in all circumstances.

The ICRC delegation in Tel Aviv has expressed deep concern over the humanitarian consequences of the house destructions carried out in Rafah by the lsraeli Defense Forces. As of 17 May 2004 the ICRC had provided essential relief to about 160 homeless families.

The ICRC, in close coordination with the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS), has provided medical assistance for people injured in violence that erupted this month in Plateau and Kano states.

The ICRC has organized a series of seminars for medical staff of various hospitals in Haiti.

On 28 April, the ICRC repatriated a released civilian internee from Iraq to his native Palestinian village in the West Bank.

Geneva (ICRC) – The Wall Street Journal of 7 May has published extensive excerpts from a confidential document entitled "Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation" of January 2004.

The ICRC launched its "Children and War" campaign in Syria on Wednesday.

Pierluigi Collina, Anders Frisk, Markus Merk and Lubos Michel launch campaign to ‘Protect Children in War’ at pre-tournament seminar near Porto

The ICRC has just completed a vast distribution of basic necessities in the western part of Côte d’Ivoire on behalf of people displaced by war who have returned to their home villages.

A cooperation agreement between the ICRC and the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was signed in Saint Petersburg on 16 April.

Geneva (ICRC) - Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today concluded his tour of the Arabian peninsula by visiting Qatar, where he met His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, crown prince of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, prime minister, and His Excellency Ahmed Bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud, minister of State for foreign affairs. He also met Her Highness Sheikha Aisha Bint Khalifa Al-Thani, president of the Qatar Red Crescent Society, and senior officials of the Society.

Dushanbe (ICRC) – On 18 April, Queen Noor of Jordan will be visiting an ICRC-supported limb-fitting centre in Dushanbe during her official trip to Tajikistan as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme.

Geneva (ICRC) – Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), arrived in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on 12 April and held talks there today with His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, deputy crown prince of Abu Dhabi and chief of staff of the UAE armed forces, and His Highness Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, UAE minister of information.

On 25 March 2004, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated two weddings and the return of 21 students crossing from Syria proper to the occupied Golan at Kuneitra, in the demilitarized zone that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan from Syria.

The ICRC's mission in the Solomon Islands recently distributed vegetable seed, fertilizers and weed killer to the Solomon Islands Prison Service for use by detainees in the country's low-security Tetere Prison farm.

Khartoum/Geneva (ICRC) – On 26 March, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated the release of a Chinese engineer held by a Darfur rebel group.

On 23 March the ICRC delivered a transformer to the national electricity board in Kisangani so that electricity could be supplied to the REGIDESO water-treatment plant in Lubunga, in Orientale province. The town’s more than 200,000 residents will thus have access to clean water again.

Every year, two million people die of tuberculosis (TB), and another eight million contract the disease.

On 19 March, 81 Eritrean civilians were repatriated from Ethiopia under ICRC auspices. The group included a medical case and 12 unaccompanied children who were later reunited with their families.

Geneva / Dakar (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, signed a cooperation agreement today at the third session of the Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference member States, which is being held in Dakar until tomorrow.

On 2 March, the ICRC reunited six children with their families scattered around the Great Lakes region.

The East Africa Landmines Workshop, organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Governments of Kenya and Canada, has just ended in Nairobi with an urgent call for renewed commitment to implementing the 1997 Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines.

On 27 February, 155 Ethiopian civilians returned to their country from Eritrea under ICRC auspices.

Geneva (ICRC) - Today, 100 Moroccan prisoners released by the Polisario Front were repatriated under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The release came following mediation by Qatar.

At the ICRC’s initiative, mental health professionals from the Georgian Centre for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, a non-governmental organization, provided psychological counselling for the families of missing persons for the first time on 21-22 January.

In 1995, along with thousands of other Rwandans, Laurent, Françoise and their two children fled the violence in their country and sought refuge in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Geneva, 30 January – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has repatriated the remains of 60 persons to Lebanon from Israel.

Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is participating in the transfer of released detainees and human remains arranged between Israel and Hezbollah through the mediation of the German authorities.

Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, has arrived in Washington for talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Dr Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. Mr Kellenberger also plans to meet senior representatives of the American Red Cross.

On 19 December, 129 Ethiopian civilians returned from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the ICRC. The group crossed the border on a bridge over the Mereb river, between the towns of Adi Quala, in Eritrea, and Rama, on the Ethiopian side.

After months of separation, Justin, Bénédicte and Fané are to be reunited with their families in Bangui and Bossangoa in the Central African Republic.

Hebron district is one of the West Bank areas worst affected by water shortages. Households often still rely on traditional rainwater collection and storage methods but many poorer families cannot afford to build water-storage cisterns.

For the first time since February, the ICRC today reunited children living in Guinea with their families in Liberia. Six Liberian children were returned to their loved ones in Monrovia.

Geneva/Tunis (ICRC) – On 8 November, 300 Moroccan prisoners released by the Polisario Front were repatriated to Morocco under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Geneva (ICRC) – Two Iraqi employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were killed in a bomb explosion outside the organization's office in Baghdad this morning. Ten other people in the area were also reported killed.

Last week the ICRC and the Liberia National Red Cross Society launched a large-scale tracing campaign in five West African countries.

Geneva (ICRC) – An ICRC-rented aircraft landed today at La Paz's international airport of El Alto. On board was a first consignment of medical and relief items for people suffering the effects of prolonged internal strife in Bolivia.

A total of 213 Ethiopian and 6 Eritrean civilians were repatriated to their respective countries under ICRC auspices in two simultaneous operations on 22 August.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field (covering 6-15 June)

Geneva (ICRC) – Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is in Brussels today for talks with senior European Union officials on matters of humanitarian concern.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field (covering 19 – 25 May)

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field.

Geneva (ICRC) - The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, arrived in Baghdad today aboard an ICRC aircraft. During his stay in the Iraqi capital, Mr Kellenberger will visit medical facilities and water treatment installations to get a first-hand impression of the situation on the ground.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Iraq. ICRC Baghdad and Basra work to restore family contacts. Humanitarian situation assessed in Mosul. ICRC and Federation start activities to support the Iraqi Red Crescent Society.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field. Lack of security and administrative structures still a major problem for hospitals and other essential services - ICRC reminds Occupying Power of its responsibilities under the Geneva Conventions in that respect

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad, Basra and Arbil. Gradual improvements in some areas belie enormous needs in others. Security still a major problem, preventing much-needed hospital staff from getting to work.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad and Arbil. Security must continue to improve in order to ease the desperate humanitarian situation. Dire conditions in Al-Rashad psychiatric hospital.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad and Basra. Second series of POW visits begins today. Water and electricity still posing major problems.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Iraq

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad, Basra and Erbil

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is profoundly alarmed by the chaos currently prevailing in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq. Lawless persons, sometimes armed, have been ransacking and looting even essential public facilities such as hospitals and water-supply installations.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad and Basra. Dire situation in Baghdad hospitals as anarchy grips the capital.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad, Basra and Arbil. Covering 9 and 10 April.

Geneva (ICRC) – A staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) based in Baghdad has been unaccounted for since Tuesday afternoon at about 5.30 p.m. local time.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad and Basra

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field in Baghdad, Basra and Arbil.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad, Basra and Arbil.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad, Basra and Erbil. Continuous inflow of war-wounded into hospitals in Baghdad. ICRC staff suspend movements in the capital.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad and Basra

Latest reports from ICRC staff in Baghdad and Basra

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field in Baghdad and Basra. Visits begin to prisoners of war (POWs). Alleged misuse of Red Crescent ambulance.

Geneva, (ICRC) – Delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today began visiting Iraqi prisoners of war captured by the coalition forces. The ICRC team consists of 15 delegates, including one doctor and six interpreters.

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field in Baghdad, Basra and Arbil, northern Iraq

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field in Baghdad and Basra

Latest reports from ICRC staff in the field in Baghdad and Arbil, northern Iraq

27 March 2003 - Field reports from Baghdad, Basra and Erbil, northern Iraq

Field reports from Baghdad and Erbil

Field reports from Baghdad and Basra

Early last year, as part of their ongoing cooperation, the ICRC delegation in Cairo and the Egyptian Red Crescent Society equipped a first-aid centre affiliated with the National Society in Rafah, on the Egyptian-Israeli border, with furniture and basic medical supplies.

Field reports from Baghdad, Basra and northern Iraq (Erbil)

Field reports from Baghdad, Basra, Kirkuk, Northern Iraq

Field reports from Baghdad, Northern Iraq (Erbil), and Kuwait

Geneva (ICRC) – The Technical Sub-Committee is today holding its 38th session at the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Amman, Jordan.

Geneva / Amman (ICRC) -- After a four-year hiatus, the Technical Sub-Committee investigating cases of persons still missing in connection with the 1991 Gulf War held its 37th meeting at the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Amman, Jordan, on 8 January.