29-10-2015 Kiev / Lugansk (ICRC) – Today, 20 detainees held in connection with the conflict in Ukraine were released with the participation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and …
With winter looming people living close to the front line are even more vulnerable. Military actions in the Lugansk region of Ukraine have left many homeless, while the majority of those with homes …
Farmers Segondo Cañafuego and Cenona Estrada used to grind corn manually – a process that takes long hours with very little output. In March, we built a machine-operated corn mill in their community …
30-10-2015 Photo: UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (Geneva, 31 October 2015) The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross …
Statement by Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of Red Cross Secretary General, Ladies and gentlemen, I came back just this morning from Mogadishu, Somalia. I could have come back …
31-10-2015 Kiev/Severodonetsk (ICRC) – Huge blasts after an ammunition depot exploded in the town of Svatove, in the Lugansk region, have left at least eight people wounded and two dead. Many …
32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2015. Document prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross This is the fourth report …
Lina with her three children in their makeshift home. Ras Baalbek, Lebanon, July 2015. “For three years I had no answer for my children when they asked me 'What are we were going to eat today?'. I …
02-11-2015 Joint statement International Committee of the Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Iran Red Crescent Society, Tehran. Tehran (ICRC) – Today the …
How would you feel if your children had been missing for over a year? In this short video, a family is tearfully rejoined with their two young sons who disappeared in July 2014. After more than a …
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