Philippines: Mindanao Newsletter 2016
We feature a roundup of our activities in Mindanao as well as stories of the people and communities we've supported in 2016. In this issue: Paying it forward a step at a time Health support in …
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There are many opportunities to meet us and see how your skills, experience and humanitarianism could make you a perfect fit for a career at the ICRC: face-to-face at job fairs, online job fairs, …
Headquarters staff in Geneva
… process for headquarters? APPLY TO JOBS RECRUITMENT PROCESS FOR HEADQUARTERS …
Catalogue of publications and films in Arabic
… for you! This brochure explains some of the jobs you could be doing with the ICRC. It …
Somalia: Healthy herds help communities survive
In a crowded pen made of thorny shrub brushes and twigs, a herder pulls away a sheep and holds it long enough for Saamiya Mohamed to inject it with a dose of vitamins and anti-parasitic medicine. The …
Forced to flee or left behind: The struggle for survival in Yambio, South Sudan
… are supporting the family by doing odd jobs: collecting firewood, making bricks, and …
Nothing is impossible
- A story for the 10th anniversary of the IHL moot court The Law School of Nanjing University had never reached the final eight of an IHL Moot Court competition, narrowly finishing ninth two years …
Yemen: Disability is not an obstacle
Samah Hassan, from Taiz, Yemen Samah Hassan is from Taiz, but conflict forced her to move to Sana’a. “My life was so difficult before I got the prosthesis; I had to struggle in my society as a …
Rwanda: Prisoners leading the way to green energy solutions
Grégoire Nsingiyumva is a technician. His job is to install and maintain biogas systems in prisons across Rwanda. Grégoire is also a prisoner. Since 1990, the ICRC has been working with Rwanda …
Philippines: Hope after losing loved ones to the conflict
… In our seven years together, he took odd jobs. Months before we last saw him, he worked … house in 2015. Even with all her additional jobs, her family still struggled to find money …
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