A summary of the ICRC's activities in South Sudan since the beginning of the emergency in mid-December 2013 to the end of April 2015. This month's theme: The Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement's …
Campo Grande, mayo 1933. Bolivian prisoners of war with ICRC delegate M.E. Galland (second from the right). The ICRC visited around 18,000 Bolivian prisoners over the course of the war. ICRC …
09-06-2015 Manila (ICRC) – As part of ongoing efforts to reduce jail congestion, an electronic system for computing inmates' good conduct time allowance will be rolled out by the Bureau of Jail …
Cyber operations in armed conflict, addressing the issue of missing persons, sexual violence in armed conflict, and migration were some of the topics discussed at the recently-held 6th South Asian …
08-06-2015 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is deeply saddened by the death of Jameela Naji Burut, a volunteer with the Yemen Red Crescent Society, who was killed in an explosion …
An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude hit Nepal on 25 April followed by the second earthquake of 7.3 magnitude on 12 May. Over 8,700 people were killed, 22,000 people were injured and more than 50 districts …
When civil war erupted in north Yemen in the early 1960's the ICRC sent medical teams into the desert. Two young British doctors fresh from medical school joined the effort to treat injured soldiers …
On September 30, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the EU Institute for Security Studies hosted a colloquium on the theme of "Women and Armed Conflicts and the issue of Sexual …
An injured man is helped out of a car on arrival at Maiduguri State Specialist Hospital. The ICRC is training Nigerian medical staff and providing hospitals with first-aid and surgical materials and …
The powerful earthquake and aftershocks in Nepal have left many communities traumatized and scared that their ordeal is far from over. The Nepal Red Cross and the ICRC have launched psycho-social …
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