03-03-2023 Statement by Patrick Youssef, ICRC Regional Director for Africa, on Tigray region at the United Nations Palais Briefing in Geneva. Good morning and thank you for your interest, I have just …
03-03-2023 Port-au-Prince, March 3rd, 2023 (ICRC). As new flare ups of violence in Haiti cause more injuries and deaths, the Haitian Red Cross (HRC), the International Committee of the Red Cross …
06-03-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Survivors of the massive earthquake that struck northwest Syria one month ago face the prospect of devastating public health challenges after the quake further damaged the …
06-03-2023 Statement given by Véronique Christory, ICRC’s Senior Arms Control Adviser, at the Fourth substantive meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information …
08-03-2023 Beijing (ICRC) ----The 21st Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot for Asia-Pacific Region opens today in Hong Kong, China. The four-day event is jointly organized by Regional …
09-03-2023 Doha, 09 March 2023 – Today in Doha, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric and the State Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of …
13-03-2023 The armed conflict in North Kivu province between the March 23 Movement (M23) and the Congolese army (FARDC) has intensified, with devastating consequences for civilians. The fighting, …
15-03-2023 The coordination mechanism comprising Georgian and Abkhaz participants that is seeking to account for 1941 people, who went missing in connection with the 1992-93 armed conflict in …
20-03-2023 Bamako (ICRC) - Two staff members from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who were abducted on 4 March 2023 on the road between Gao and Kidal in northern Mali have been …
20-03-2023 The following is a statement from Fabrizio Carboni, ICRC’s regional director for the Near and Middle East, ahead of the Syria/Türkiye earthquake pledging conference hosted in Brussels on …
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