Life without fear is overdue in Colombia
04-03-2020 Bogotá (ICRC) – The growing number of victims of explosive devices and anti-personnel mines, the confinement of communities, ongoing forced displacement and disappearances, attacks on …
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South Sudan: Hundreds wounded, villages looted in intercommunal fighting in Jonglei State
04-03-2020 Juba (ICRC) – Hundreds of people have been wounded, families forced to flee their homes, and villages looted amidst intercommunal clashes that erupted mid-February in Jonglei State. The …
Syria: Civilians in urgent need of safety and life-saving assistance amidst unprecedented displacement
25-02-2020 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating security and living conditions of the hundreds of thousands of newly …
South Sudan: Millions struggle to recover from unsparing war, as violence threatens fragile stability
20-02-2020 Juba (ICRC) – As South Sudan's leaders face a deadline to form a unity government on Saturday, a key milestone in the country's peace process, millions of South Sudanese are struggling to …
North Sinai: Egyptian Red Crescent and ICRC provide humanitarian assistance to thousands of households
19-02-2020 Cairo (ICRC / ERC) –The Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERCS), in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), distribute 469 tons of food aid, 14 tons of hygiene …
Libya: Civilians face deep suffering from long conflict, as fighting forces schools and health facilities to close
13-02-2020 Tripoli (ICRC) – Civilians in Libya are suffering deeply from a war that is hitting neighborhoods, health facilities and schools. Daily life for many Libyans is marked by chronic fear and …
Central African Republic: Crime forces ICRC to limit operations in Nana-Grébizi
12-02-2020 Bangui (ICRC) – Following a number of security incidents that have endangered its personnel and its operations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been obliged to …
Reversing commitment to anti-personnel mine ban endangers civilian lives
06-02-2020 Geneva - The International Committee of the Red Cross regrets the decision by the U.S. government to loosen current restrictions on its military's use of mines. Decades of use of …
South African scholar wins inaugural prize for African research on the rules of war
04-02-2020 Pretoria (ICRC) – South African scholar Dr. Orly Maya Stern was awarded the first-ever International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Africa Prize for best published work by African international …
Further discovery of human remains believed to be missing people from 1990-1991 Gulf War
30-01-2020 Joint statement of the Tripartite Commission The recent recovery of remains of people in Al-Muthanna Governorate, Samawa district, in southern Iraq, thought to have gone missing during the …
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