COVID-19: As if the war was not enough
… back to top There were simply no more jobs – none at all. Everything just stopped. …
… back to top There were simply no more jobs – none at all. Everything just stopped. …
Brazil was headed for the peak in its first wave of cases and deaths from COVID-19 in 2020 when the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) gave photographers and journalists in three …
Roughly 510 km from Kabul, Badakhshan's provincial capital Faizabad sits high at an altitude of 1,200 m above sea level. The mountainous province of Badakhshan is home to around 1.5 million people …
Digital Technologies and Humanitarian Action in Armed Conflict On 18 March 2021, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convened a webinar discussion with experts about "Digital …
Annual report 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges in many areas, such as health management inside the country's prisons and the humanitarian consequences of migration. Likewise, it …
… Ashfaq Yusufzai, “Specialist Doctors Quit Jobs to Join LRH”, Dawn News (9 June 2017) KP … compulsory to apply for in-house hospital jobs. Noti cations are legally binding. v. The …
Throughout 2020, the social and economic crisis in Venezuela continued to take its toll on the most vulnerable part of the population, who had to not only endure a context riddled with violence and a …
… of the conflict. Economic opportunities and jobs top young Syrians' list of what they need … unusual, high risk, socially degrading jobs 3% 70% 49% 43% Married children (under … have accepted high-risk or socially degrading jobs. • Cash assistance was the number one …
Aya Hajajreh & Her Mother – COVID-19 Nurse Aya Hajajreh, 28, is a nurse in the COVID-19 ward in Al-Maqassed Hospital in Jerusalem. During the peak of the pandemic, Aya, six-months pregnant, insisted …
The search for ways to improve our collective response has led the World Bank, UNICEF and the ICRC to publish a new report today called, “Joining Forces to Combat Protracted Crises: Humanitarian and …
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