Niger: Thousands displaced from Lake Chad islands
Niamey/Geneva (ICRC) – The situation is deteriorating in Diffa in Niger, just across the border from north-eastern Nigeria. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Red Cross …
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Children traumatized, families broken - life inside Maiduguri
They arrived in the middle of the night from the nearby town of Bama, more than a thousand people, mainly children and the elderly. They had been transported on trucks, under heavy military escort, …
Strengthening international humanitairan law protecting persons deprived of their liberty
This report provides an account of the October 2014 thematic consultation of government experts on grounds and procedures for internment and detainee transfers. The consultation was part of the …
Key conference on curbing spread of nuclear weapons ends in failure
An important UN-hosted conference to review progress on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament has ended in failure. The 2015 Review Conference of the Treaty on the …
Cases of identity
Patricio Bustos says visits from ICRC delegates when he was imprisoned in Chile in the 1970s likely saved his life. Now, as head of the country's forensic services agency, he's working, with help …
The agony and the uncertainty: Missing loved ones and ambiguous loss
Roubina Tahmazian is based at the ICRC's Tbilisi delegation, where she advises on mental health and pyscho-social issues. Here, she explains the theory of "ambiguous loss," which forms the basis of …
Ethiopia: Support to communities hosting South Sudanese refugees
Since the beginning of the crisis in South Sudan, more than 200,000 South Sudanese have moved to Ethiopia, where the ICRC and the Ethiopian Red Cross have distributed seeds and tools to over 16,000 …
Missing persons in the Western Balkans
Historical background As soon as the conflicts broke out in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the ICRC and the other components of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement launched an …
Women & War and the issue of Sexual Violence
On September 30, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the EU Institute for Security Studies hosted a colloquium on the theme of "Women and Armed Conflicts and the issue of Sexual …
Exploring international humanitarian law: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Cyber operations in armed conflict, addressing the issue of missing persons, sexual violence in armed conflict, and migration were some of the topics discussed at the recently-held 6th South Asian …
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