This bulletin contains an overview of our operations focusing on COVID-19 and other activities during the second half of the year 2020. FACTS AND FIGURES NAIROBI REGIONAL DELEGATION FACTS & FIGURES …
30-12-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross is profoundly saddened that three of our colleagues were among those killed in Aden's airport explosion earlier today. Our …
"Mom, I'm going to walk," Min Htet Oo excitedly yelled while getting his second prosthesis fitted recently. Born with a lower limb deficiency, Htet Oo had the first prosthesis fitted in 2018. "We …
Kenya - Man dashes through a swarm of desert locusts to chase them away in the bush near Enziu, 200km east of Nairobi Large swarms of these locusts have infested over 70 thousand hectares of land …
28-12-2020 Bangui (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been forced to drastically reduce its humanitarian activities in Bouar in Nana-Mambéré prefecture after its office …
24-12-2020 Cairo (ICRC / ERC) – The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC), in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has distributed food and hygiene parcels to 1,500 families …
24-12-2020 In November 2020, the Oman Ministry of Health and the ICRC have launched the first phase of a 4-phase training course on the management of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear …
The capacity of Lebanon’s already strained public health sector to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak is limited. The Syrian and Palestinian refugee populations, as well as people in places of …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been working to ensure access to water and sanitation services for people displaced in northern Ethiopia as a result of the recent military …
"I get really sad when I think about the hardest things about my job. It's never easy recovering a dead body, especially if it's a child, but the chance to give family members some peace of mind is …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
