19-04-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is again calling for immediate humanitarian access as fighting continues to rage in Sudan. Fierce clashes continued …
The situation in Sudan took a terrifying turn on April 15, as fighting erupted, forcing civilians to seek shelter from the heavy fighting that has raged on for weeks. Nearly three months since the …
17-04-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Over the last four days, 973 former detainees held in relation to the conflict in Yemen were repatriated to Yemen and Saudi Arabia by the International Committee of the Red …
At the request of the parties involved in the fighting in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated mid-April 2023 the release and transfer of 973 people detained in …
The ICRC's Regional Delegation for Mexico and Central America presented its Humanitarian Report 2022-2023, in which it warns of the profound humanitarian consequences associated with armed violence, …
A lack of running water was a daily reality for thousands of people in Roggee, a small town in Ethiopia`s Oromia region. For years, misery spread in the township as people struggled every day for a …
Tetiana, a 64 year-old from Donetsk, stepped on an anti-personnel mine while gardening in Gornyak settlement in the Kuybyshevskiy district of Donetsk, changing her life in an instant. "My mother …
As overseas humanitarian assistance budgets are expected to decrease over the next two years, the ICRC will need to be more deliberate in directing efforts towards programmes and places where we can …
Marzia (name changed), from Ghazni Province in the Malistan district of Afghanistan, was nine years old when her family tried to flee the country. "My mother tried to take my siblings and me across …
The past year of international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine has caused significant displacement, innumerable civilian deaths and injuries, and devastating damage to civilian …
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