Australia: Perspectives on the Pacific
ICRC’s head of operations for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Alain Aeschlimann, toured the Pacific earlier this month visiting Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand for meetings …
ICRC’s head of operations for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Alain Aeschlimann, toured the Pacific earlier this month visiting Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand for meetings …
Colombia annual report , activities 2013 and outlook 2014 (PDF) The hope of being able to turn the page and leave behind a conflict spanning five decades contrasted with the reality facing the …
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Following the ICRC's Global Partnerships for Impact and Innovation (GPHI2) event in Lausanne, the ICRC and Novartis launched a partnership, focusing on improving care and treatment to the most …
This humanitarian action webcast, co-produced by the ICRC and the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action (ATHA), explores contemporary technological developments and discusses the resulting …
This humanitarian action webcast, co-produced by the ICRC and the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action (ATHA), explores contemporary technological developments and discusses the resulting …
Huda is the mother of three children. The death of her husband left her destitute, but now she has opened a hairdressing salon with the help of the ICRC. Her new business is helping her support her …
He went to fight for an armed group as a boy; she thought he was dead. More than 10 years later, in prison, he told his story to an ICRC delegate and asked him to trace his family. The painstaking …
A town in ruins. There was massive destruction of civilian property: houses, factories, fields, villages – sometimes even whole towns – were obliterated. The catastrophic results for civilians …
Losing a foot to an explosive device could have shattered the dreams of Holmes, a young man from Caquetá department in southern Colombia. But today he’s studying at university and making a go of his …
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