Yemen: Turning disabilities into opportunities
18-12-2014 In Yemen, where the Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated on 13 December, festivities go silently, perhaps even unnoticed. However, all over the country, there is reason to …
18-12-2014 In Yemen, where the Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated on 13 December, festivities go silently, perhaps even unnoticed. However, all over the country, there is reason to …
Thierry, a prosthetic/orthotic technician from the Akanin’ny Marary centre in Ambositra, supported by the ICRC’s Special Fund for the Disabled (SFD), prepares a prosthesis for a patient. The …
18-12-2014 Cairo (ICRC) – Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Egyptian Red Crescent, in cooperation with Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population, held a conference …
Legislation for common-law States seeking to implement their obligations under the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its 1954 and 1999 …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in South Sudan since the beginning of the emergency in mid-December 2013 to the end of November 2014. FACTS & FIGURES DECEMBER 2014 ICRC IN SOUTH SUDAN It is now …
Monrovia Central Prison, Liberia. Everyone who enters Monrovia Central Prison has to submit to the mandatory temperature check and wash their hands with chlorinated water. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / T. …
Since Typhoon Hagupit struck the Philippines just over a week ago, the Philippine Red Cross has had three rapid response teams on the ground to assess the impact on the worst affected areas, …
Tabasco, Tenosique, Mexico, 9 February 2012. Migrants from Central America wait for a train to leave. Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Central America risk their lives every year in search of a …
17-12-2014 Around the world, thousands of migrants are behind bars. Having already suffered many hardships on perilous journeys, migrants should not be subjected to administrative detention except as …
Every day, hundreds of people travel thousands of kilometres across land or sea in search of a brighter future. 18 December is International Migrants Day. Pierre Gentile, head of the ICRC's …
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