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 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.

GENEVA _ At the end of a 3 day visit to Georgia and the Russian Federation, ICRC President Jacob Kellenberger announced that personnel from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been granted access and are on their way to the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali.

ICRC president Jacob Kellenberger arrived in the Georgian capital Tbilisi this morning to see conditions in the city for himself.

More people arrive in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, fleeing fighting in South Ossetia and around Gori.

Geneva (ICRC) – The ICRC's Annual Report, (published 27 May 2008), announces spending to help people whose lives have been wrecked by armed conflict among the highest ever. The organisation's total expenditure reached 944 million Swiss Francs in 2007, with 45 per cent of field expenditure going to Africa and 21 per cent to the Middle East. The sum is a little under the total for 2006.

Prisons in Kyrgyzstan are a breeding ground for the deadly and highly infectious lung disease, tuberculosis. The likelihood of suffering from TB in prisons is 30 times higher than in the general population. More disturbing is the growth in varieties known as MDR – multi drug resistant TB . Such strains do not respond to first level antibiotics and are extremely difficult to treat. According to ICRC experts, 37% of new TB cases in Kyrgyzstan prisons are drug resistant.

Women's search for the truth. For hundreds of thousands of women, one of the worst consequences of armed conflict is the agonizing wait for news when brothers, husbands or sons have gone missing. On International Women’s Day (8 March 2008), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), calls on states to take measures to clarify the fate of the missing and inform the women left behind. Louma from Iraq and Dzidza from Bosnia-Herzegovina have both lost husbands in the course of conflict, and explain their longing to know the truth about what happened

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the escalation of violence over the past week. "What we are seeing today is violence of a nature which is unbearable," says the ICRC's deputy head of operations for the Horn of Africa, Alexandre Liebeskind. "We are seeing too many violence which is indiscriminate and which doesn't seem to have any limits."

LONDON, January 15, 2008 – Teletrax, the global broadcast intelligence company, today announced it has signed contracts with two significant European-based organizations -- the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Atlas Agency -- to electronically monitor usage of their news content. Teletrax is a subsidiary of Medialink Worldwide Incorporated (Nasdaq: MDLK).

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.

On the tenth anniversary of the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines celebrated on 3 December 2007, the ICRC calls on all remaining states to accede to the Treaty. This report shows victims from Iraq and Chechnya as well as clearance work in South Lebanon.

"We fled the fighting in Mogadishu. We came here to find refuge. As you see, we do not have anything, no shelter and nothing to sleep on.

ICRC video footage available for media professionals. As the International Committee of the Red Cross is launching its report on "Household Economy Assessment" this report shows two stories of impoverished Palestinian families.

ICRC video footage available for media professionals. Unique footage from remote North Kivu Province 45,000 villagers, chased from their village by fighting, return home and receive basic supplies from the ICRC.

ICRC video footage available for media professionals. ICRC provides medical and psycho-social support for rape victims

ICRC video footage available for media professionals.

Six months after, the International Committee of the Red Cross is supplying seed, fertilizer and farming implements to some 30,000 families (142,000 people) in parts of Muzaffarabad District. This video shows the challenges of this operation to be taken place until the end of this April 2006.

Giving access to health care to isolated women and children in Darfur, training female prisoners in Yemen to help them prepare for release... This footage shows the ways the ICRC helps women most in need.

The Horn of Africa is in the grip of a severe drought. One of the most affected areas is southern Somalia. Two to four (depending on the region) consecutive poor rain seasons, have caused acute shortages of water and food and destroyed crops and grazing lands in the predominantly agro-pastoralists and pastoralists regions. Many rain water catchments such as in Hudur town, Bakool region are completely dried up. As a result tens of thousands of people are in urgent need of assistance.

Yemeni families of Guantanamo Bay detainees derive some comfort from letters sent by their detained relatives. They give their testimonials on the importance to stay in touch with their sons through the "Red Cross Messages".