Health care in Gaza: Priorities and challenges
"If people don't have access to their hospitals, where are they meant to go?" asks Kirrily Clarke, our Hospital Project Manager in Gaza. Find out in this clip how we have been assisting the Gazan …
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Myanmar: Violence in Rakhine creates long-term needs
Five months after violence disrupted humanitarian operations in Rakhine state, the ICRC has restarted a full range of activities there for the Muslim and ethnic Rakhine communities alike. "The Muslim …
Yemen: ICRC shocked by killing of ambulance driver
09-09-2014 Sana'a/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is shocked by the death of an ambulance driver working for Yemen's Ministry of Public Health and Population. …
The International Committee of the Red Cross in the First World War
Article by Daniel Palmieri At the outbreak of the Great War, the ICRC had already been operating for over 50 years. Although international in name, the ICRC was actually a local philanthropic …
ICRC delegation to the African Union
The ICRC delegation to the African Union (AU), based in Addis Ababa, works with the AU to draw attention to humanitarian issues, promote implementation of international humanitarian law throughout …
The use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas and the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks
37th round table on current issues of international humanitarian law: Conduct of hostilities: the Practice, the Law and the Future, Sanremo, 4 - 6 September 2014. Article by Laurent Gisel, legal …
Iraq: More than a million victims of fighting receive ICRC help
05-09-2014 Fighting in Iraq has displaced over 1.5 million people. The ICRC has delivered food, drinking water, other relief items and medical assistance to more than a million people since January, …
Gaza: Priorities and challenges
As an open-ended cease fire promises relief from a 51-day conflict in Gaza, the ICRC and its partner, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), are boosting their efforts to help those whose lives …
South Sudan: Health services struggle to meet needs
Facing massive displacement that has resulted from the fighting, health services in South Sudan are working under enormous pressure. Since the outbreak of violence in December, the ICRC has worked …
Is there still a place for impartial humanitarianism?
Speaker: Yves Daccord, Director-General, ICRC. Where: Chatham House, London When: 04.09.2014 Chair : Lord Mark Malloch-Brown Listen to an audio recording from this event on Chatham House's …
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