Venezuela: ICRC to expand humanitarian effort
11-04-2019 Caracas/Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed a five-day visit to Venezuela as the organization looks to ramp up its …
11-04-2019 Caracas/Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed a five-day visit to Venezuela as the organization looks to ramp up its …
"When the prisoners of war finally saw the plane, and they went up, that's when the excitement got a little bit contagious. It was just something you couldn't envision, people being prisoners in …
The Fund The Empress Shôken Fund is named after Her Majesty The Empress of Japan, who proposed – at the 9th International Conference of the Red Cross – the creation of an international fund to …
From 9 to 11 April 2019, the Arab Union of Forensics and Toxicology (AUFT) held its 10th international conference: Humanitarian Forensics – Education, Training and Practice. The event was organized …
12-04-2019 JAKARTA, 12 April 2019 - ASEAN Secretariat and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) co-organized the first workshop on challenges and humanitarian action in Southeast Asia …
14-04-2019 Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is making a public call for information about three staff members abducted in Syria more than five years ago. …
15-04-2019 Suva (ICRC) - Two workshops on international rules and standards for members of the Fijian Police Force were conducted by the ICRC's regional delegation for police and security in …
15-04-2019 On 8 April 2019, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) chaired the 13th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism, established with the purely humanitarian objective of …
In 2018, the ICRC continued its activities in Azerbaijan delivering humanitarian assistance to affected population in relation to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Thousands benefited from humanitarian …
On 23 March 2019, the small village of Ogossagou in Central Mali looked like the apocalypse and seemed frozen in time. The wind has covered everything in a layer of red dust: burnt-out huts and farm …
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