21-10-2020 Abuja (ICRC) – First responders seeking to assist the wounded must be allowed to do their work unimpeded in Nigeria’s ongoing protests, while live ammunition must be used only as a last …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Sanata Dharma University (SDU), Yogyakarta-Indonesia, and the Jesuit Conference of Asia-Pacific (JCAP) will launch a series of webinars on …
Statement Statement to Ministerial Roundtable on Responding to Humanitarian Challenges in a Long-Term Perspective in the Central Sahel, 20 October 2020 As delivered by ICRC President Peter Maurer …
Statement Statement to the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, First Committee: General debate on all disarmament and international security agenda items Delivered by Ms. Véronique …
By dawn, our teams were on the ground to kick start the two-day release operation to bring back home thousands of former detainees. Credit: Osama Alansi One of the former detainees prays while …
In August 2018, the ICRC launched a systematic study of restrictive detention regimes in Eurasia, as concerns were growing over the use and potential misuse of such regimes in criminal detention. The …
Since the onset of the pandemic, numerous guidelines, protocols, and policies have been formulated and widely shared to safely and professionally manage the dead in a dignified manner. But many …
With a safer space for their school, students and teachers of Pagatin renew their hopes for better learning. Nasrah Abdulbayan longs for her old school, where she studied and played without worry. …
According to figures from Colombia’s National Health-Care Committee, between 1 January and 30 September 2020, there were 242 reports of attacks on health-care workers, facilities and vehicles in the …
“It has been such a great and satisfying feeling to be part of this humanitarian work and to be able to transport needed items to the Syrian community.” -- Khaldun Hamasha Recently, the ICRC’s …
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