This is Nessar, he is 22, from Lashkar Gah. He makes a living riding his tuk tuk, taking people around the city. Andrew Quilty / ICRC You can say he now lives an ordinary life, but it wasn't always …
Statement In Timbuktu, Mali, this month I met with families, surviving without food, whose crops have failed and whose children have been killed by improvised explosive devices (IED). I couldn't help …
“Employers are usually reluctant to hire someone with a disability”, says Sameh, who lost both legs during 2009 war. Despite his background in business administration, Saleh could not find work after …
If beginnings are anything to go by, Bhutan's association with the ICRC in 2019 will be a fruitful one. The mission was aimed at briefing the new political leadership on the ICRC's work in Bhutan and …
The last time Gilles Carbonnier was in India, it was 1986 and he was a backpacker. Incidentally, he witnessed the Kumbh Mela, a mass Hindu pilgrimage which happens every 12 years, back then. He …
16-01-2019 The ICRC develops its first massive open online course (MOOC) on sustainability in humanitarian action The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has developed a new online course …
The second edition of the Asian and Pacific Conference on Prison Health (APCPH) recently organized in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, marked another important milestone in the promotion of health-care services …
Tens of thousands of people went missing as a result of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995). Almost 25 years later, 6,126 families are still waiting for information about the fate of their …
Saidi, Bashrheel, Nyabiel and Nyakong have been displaced by violence and conflict. Despite being forced to flee their homes in Burundi, Yemen and South Sudan, they still hold on to their dreams. …
Prof. Dr Jürg Kesselring is a member of the ICRC Assembly and also the head of the department of neurology and neurorehabilitation, rehabilitation Centre, Valens, Switzerland. He was on a visit to …
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