Addis Ababa (ICRC) - The ICRC has briefed several defense attachés connected to embassies and organizations in Addis Ababa about its mission and activities in South Sudan. The goal of the briefing …
On February 8th, six of our colleagues were targeted and killed in Afghanistan. That same day, a distribution centre in Aleppo was attacked – killing two Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers. Since …
On February 9th, the Kodok hospital received dozens of wounded people. CC BY-NC-ND / Alyona Synenko / ICRC As fighting intensified in the Upper Nile region, the ICRC surgical team in Kodok hospital …
The ICRC's Police and Gendarmerie Delegate, Mark Tony Waine, held a meeting with the African Policing Oversight Forum's (APCOF's) coordinator, Sean Tait, on 7 February 2017, in Pretoria, South …
XXV Regular Session of the General Ministerial Conference of OPANAL. Statement of Peter Maurer, President, International Committee of the Red Cross. Allow me to begin by thanking the Government of …
14-02-2017 Mexico (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, today urged governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to support the negotiations …
I am an American trainee who is committed to issues affecting vulnerable populations, such as migrants, victims of conflict, sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ+) and survivors of sexual assault. I …
I am working as the Gender and Diversity Advisor at the Human Resources department in Geneva. I have been working as a Protection delegate and programme responsible for many years in the field for …
I joined the ICRC in 1997 and served as an ICRC delegate in Afghanistan, head of sub-delegation in Rwanda and deputy head of delegation in Congo-Brazzaville. In 2000, I joined the ICRC legal division …
My name is Ellen Nohle, and I recently finished my one-year traineeship at the legal division of the ICRC. My background is in law, with a Bachelor from the University of Cambridge, after which I …
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