Geneva / Khartoum (ICRC) – Six children, out of the 103 caught up in the Arche de Zoe affair, rejoined their families in Sudan today, under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Geneva/Ljubljana (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, is in Ljubljana for talks with senior government officials and representatives of the Slovenian Red Cross. Slovenia currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union (EU).

Abéché – 1.11.2007 – Since the events of 25 October that led to the arrest of members of the “Children Rescue/Arche de Zoé” organization, the staff and partner organizations of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have been working to meet the needs of the 103 children currently living in the Abéché orphanage.

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

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

Geneva (ICRC) – Marking Red Hand Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appealed for an end to the use of children as soldiers and for other tasks in armies.

Over 500 schoolchildren in Orwa, West Pokot and Lorongon, Turkana District, will benefit from two new primary schools built by the ICRC.

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

Today the Red Crescent Society of Azerbaijan is opening newly constructed safe-play areas for children in two villages of the front-line district of Fizuli, in the south-western part of the country, where large numbers of mines and explosive remnants of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict continue to prevent a return to normal life.

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.

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

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

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.

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

On 1 July the ICRC press prize was awarded to the Croatian journalist Suzana Hetrich and her team for the documentary Djeca – Zrtve Rata (Child Victims of War) at the 45th Monte Carlo Television Festival.

Throughout the world, the ICRC faces the complex problems posed by the failure of warring parties to distinguish between combatants and civilians, particularly children.

The ICRC launched a new tracing campaign today in cooperation with the Liberia National Red Cross Society.

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.

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.

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

On 19 August, an ICRC-chartered plane completed a series of trips transferring 19 unaccompanied children from Kinshasa to Goma and 28 from Goma to the capital. ICRC delegates then returned the children individually to their respective families residing in various provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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.

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 24 June will be a special day in the joint UEFA/ICRC initiative to raise awareness of the need to protect and help children affected by war.

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 and the Liberian National Red Cross Society have launched a new tracing campaign. The campaign involves ICRC delegations and Red Cross Societies throughout West Africa, who are joining forces to trace the relatives of Liberian children separated from their families.

GENEVA (ICRC) – Three renowned UEFA EURO 2004TM football referees travelled to Sierra Leone this week as ambassadors for the Protect Children in War campaign, a joint effort by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Geneva (ICRC) – During a two-day official visit to Portugal starting on 11 March, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, will meet with the head of state, Jorge Sampaio, the minister of foreign affairs and Portuguese communities, Teresa Gouveia, and the minister of state and defence, Paulo Portas.

On February 23, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reunited 26 children aged between 4 and 17 and two elderly women with their families in the southern Sudanese towns of Raja and Wau.

Since last November, when it resumed its cross-border family reunification operations, the ICRC has returned 146 Liberian children to their families in Montserrado, Margibi and Bong counties.

Last week, 10 boys were reunited with their families in rural Burundi after being used as child soldiers in violation of international law.

On 4 February two 16-year-olds, Alexis and Gerard (not their real names), were reunited with their families in rural Burundi after being used as child soldiers in violation of international humanitarian law.

The ICRC today brought 10 unaccompanied children from Kinshasa to Goma, where they were to be reunited with their families.

Anders Frisk, Markus Merk, Lubos Michel join Pierluigi Collina as ambassadors.

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).

After months of separation, Jetro and Albin have been reunited with their parents in Bossangoa in the Central African Republic.

On 16 January the ICRC brought 21 unaccompanied children from Goma to Kinshasa, where they were reunited with their families.

For the first time since the crisis in Ivory Coast started in September 2002, the ICRC was able to cross the ceasefire line to reunite a child with his family.

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

World-renowned referee Pierluigi Collina to serve as campaign ambassador

Bonheur Mitutsho was placed in the care of his uncle Masumbuko two days ago in the Congolese city of Goma. The 12-year-old boy moved with his family from Goma to the capital Kinshasa in 1997.

“Unbelievable!” said Jazmin Cibalonza, as she took her two children, Claude, 13 years, and Nada, 12 years, into her arms and kissed them after they stepped from an ICRC car at their home in Goma. “My dream has come true,” added Jazmin, whose voice filled with emotion when she thanked the ICRC for bringing her children back to her after more than five years’ separation.

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

"Don't worry about us. We are in Islamabad. We have everything we need – clothes and food – but we miss you so much". This Red Cross message, two months ago, was the first sign of life that Shaik Neymatullah had had from his sons for two years.

The ICRC delegation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo yesterday completed a series of flights between the east and the west of the country to reunite 82 unaccompanied children with their families.

On 24 September, the ICRC repatriated two unaccompanied Rwandan children who had fled the fighting in their country several years earlier and had taken refuge in the Republic of the Congo. They were reunited with their families by the ICRC delegation in Kigali the same day.

The ICRC completed a series of operations on 28 August between the east and west of the country to reunite 94 unaccompanied children with their families.

Last Wednesday, the ICRC was able to repatriate a Rwandan teenager who had been separated from his family since the fighting in 1994. The 17-year-old headed home from Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo to Kigali via Kinshasa and Goma (Democratic Republic of the Congo - DRC) after exchanging several Red Cross messages and photos with his family. Importantly, both he and his relatives had confirmed that they wanted to be together again - the ICRC would have cancelled the operation if the boy had said "no".

Believe it or not, it's true. In the streets of Basra, children can be seen playing football among explosive remnants of war - grenades, stockpiles of ammunition and even armoured fighting vehicles - abandoned by soldiers of the former regime.

On 16 April the ICRC signed a memorandum of understanding with the Palestinian Authority aimed at introducing the Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL) programme into the Palestinian educational system.

The poster exhibition Children against Mines opened in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny, on 2 April. On display are 80 posters designed by some of more than 1,000 schoolchildren from Grozny, Gudermes, Shali and Urus-Martan who took part in a competition organized by the ICRC in cooperation with the local youth centre and the local branch of the Chechen Ministry of Culture.

ICRC staff based in Goma have reunited 45 unaccompanied children with their families. The children aged between 6 and 17 had been separated from their relatives for several months or in some cases years owing to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Geneva (ICRC) – Under the patronage of Suzanne Mubarak, President of the Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC), the Meridian Cup 2003 kicks off in Cairo on 24 January with a major goal: promoting the rights of children caught in war-torn areas.

The ICRC's Sudan delegation last week flew five children from Malakal, in Upper Nile state, to Pochalla, in Jonglei state, where they were reunited with their families after three and a half years of separation.

The conflicts in Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire have turned tens of thousands of Liberians into refugees in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire.

Geneva (ICRC) – On 20 November, Universal Children's Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) once again calls attention to children’s position as some of the most vulnerable victims of armed conflicts.

Geneva (ICRC) - Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today evacuated eight children from the Moscow theatre where several hundred people are being held hostage.

Children are going back to school in the Gaza Strip, but for teachers in Mawasi, the start of the new school year has brought with it more than the usual challenges.

About a play that alerts children to the danger posed by unexploded ordnance, large quantities of which were left behind in the areas affected by fighting between Macedonian security forces and the National Liberation Army in 2001.

The ICRC is making available a teaching kit for young people between 12 and 20 years of age, consisting of a videocassette and notes for use in classroom discussions of violence.