Missing Persons Cyprus Report
This report lays out the extensive discussions and conclusions of a workshop co-organised in Cyprus in October 2019 by the ICRC and the Commission on Missing Persons in Cyprus. It contains …
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Humanity in Action – 2019
Humanity in Action provides an at-a-glance guide to how we helped and protected victims of armed conflict and other violence in 2019. It provides facts and figures on our programmes around the world …
Managing projects addressing non-communicable diseases: Operational guidelines for field staff
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent an increasing global challenge. A majority of NCD-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, where numerous humanitarian crises are currently …
Physical Rehabilitation Programme: 2019 Annual Report
Access to physical rehabilitation services is essential for ensuring that people with physical disabilities participate fully in society. Regaining mobility is an important step towards having the …
Health promotion in detention through peer-based interventions
A peer-based intervention is a consultative and participatory process in which a group of people selected from a specific population – in this case, people deprived of their liberty – express their …
COVID-19: Medicines and virtual consultation ensure safety among diabetic patients in Pakistan
As TV channels flashed news announcing a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of COVID-19 cases in Pakistan, a sense of fear came upon Shahbaz Khan Mughal. "It was not fear of the novel …
Cyber attacks against medical facilities pose a real risk to humans – in times of pandemics, in times of conflict, at all times
Statement Statement on agenda item "Norms, rules, and principles" within the open-ended working group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of …
Six essential lessons for a pandemic response in humanitarian settings
Statement Statement to UN Security Council Open Debate: Pandemics and Security Conflict zones are the sharp end of pandemics. Communities are already living on a knife edge where additional shocks …
Panel Discussion on the Occasion of Launching the Updated Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
The ICRC in Cairo and Rabat, along with the League of the Arab States and the National Committee on IHL in the Kingdom of Morocco, is co-organizing a panel discussion on the occasion of launching the …
Roll-up: Updated Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention of 1949 – New from the International Committee of the Red Cross (LARGE)
In 2011, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a team of renowned experts embarked on a major project: updating the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their …
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