Working for the ICRC: Detention delegate
Detention delegates visit detainees to ensure that they are being treated in a humane fashion. This includes checking that they are being held in acceptable living conditions, can stay in touch with …
Detention delegates visit detainees to ensure that they are being treated in a humane fashion. This includes checking that they are being held in acceptable living conditions, can stay in touch with …
Delivering effective and efficient Restoring Family Links (RFL) services requires the collection and processing of large amounts of personal data. A Restoring Family Links Code of Conduct on Data …
The following account is by Ahmed (not his real name), one of the thousands of migrants who travel through the Sahara including through Niger each year, where the blazing heat and dust challenges …
In Colombia there are registers listing some 78,000 missing persons. But we'll never know how many there really are. Many are buried in unmarked graves (bearing the letters 'NN') in hundreds of …
The ICRC Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the ICRC body responsible for checking that the organization's processing of personal data complies with its Rules on Personal Data Protection and other …
The Brussels Privacy Hub at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) intend to run a project exploring the relationship between data protection …
In 2015, more than two million Yemenis were forced to flee their homes, thousands lost their lives and countless others were maimed or injured. Across the country, hospitals ran out of supplies, …
Lamine Follé is a 33-year-old soldier now serving with the 3rd company of the Malian National Guard. But in 2012 he was captured by an armed group during fighting in the northern part of the country. …
Buru, Ophthalmologist examins a patient before determining his needs for operation or other treatment. CC BY-NC-ND/ICRC/ Otto Ferdinand Buru, Freddy Nggadas, ICRC prgram manager for the Cataract …
Giving birth in South Sudan is often dangerous and difficult. Medical care can be long distances away, forcing pregnant women to give birth at home or to travel on foot late in their pregnancy to a …
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