Sri Lanka: Waiting for answers
Between July and September 2017, we started conducting lectures on ambiguous loss for students and professionals in the fields of psychology and counselling to raise awareness of it, with the aim of …
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Sri Lanka: South Asia meet in Colombo on IHL
The South Asia Teaching Session on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) was held in Colombo on 3-8 July 2017. The seminar saw more than 40 participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, …
ICRC remains committed to South Sudan’s people
Operational Highlights for 2017 The fourth year of South Sudan's civil war saw a severe deterioration of humanitarian conditions across the country. The conflict has claimed innumerable lives and …
Afghanistan: Despite the challenges we remained committed in 2017
It's been a difficult year for the humanitarian community in Afghanistan. Besides the fragmented conflict landscape in some parts of the country, there is growing insecurity and an increase in …
South Sudan: ICRC available to act as a neutral intermediary in release of detainees
28-01-2018 Juba - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has informed parties involved in the conflict in South Sudan that it can facilitate any potential release of persons detained in …
A look back at First World War's most vulnerable
Orphans milk goats at an orphanage in Russia’s Novgorod Province, August 1914. The ICRC supported charities throughout Russia and Eastern Europe. A hundred years after the First World War came to an …
Burundi: 56,000 people gain easy access to clean drinking water
The population southwest of Bujumbura now has easier access to drinking water, thanks to an ICRC water-supply project carried out in partnership with REGIDESO, Burundi’s water company. CC BY-NC-ND / …
7 issues that will shape the humanitarian agenda in 2018
By Peter Maurer, the ICRC President . Syria enters its seventh year of fighting in 2018. Hunger and disease will affect millions of people in Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Around the world, people …
The results of ICRC writing competition
The Regional IHL Department in Cairo would like to thank all those who have shown interest in the activities that aim to support and promote understanding and dialogue on IHL by contributing to the …
Autonomous weapon systems under international humanitarian law
To coincide with the first meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons on autonomous weapon systems in November …
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