Mr Carbonnier checks a building damaged by armed conflict at Marawi’s most affected area. ICRC/Jojo Sescon Unidentified human remains from Marawi’s most affected area are buried at the Maqbara …
Dear Madam, Sir, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is pleased to launch a Request for Tender in connection with the following project: Framework Agreement for Purchase of power …
Opinion leaders and the ICRC join efforts to promote principled humanitarian action in Gaza At a time when humanitarian action is facing mounting challenges across the globe, the guiding principles …
24-11-2022 Kabul (ICRC) – As winter sets in across Afghanistan and as the economic crisis worsens, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seeing a spike in cases of child pneumonia …
Similar to prisons around the world, scabies is a recurrent health problem in places of detention in Bangladesh. One major challenge is that there is no national protocol for scabies management in …
23-11-2022 Bali, Indonesia — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) are hosting the Senior Workshop on International Rules governing Military …
According to the Kenyan authorities, over 4.35 million people living mostly in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) face severe food insecurity. Below-average rainfall has protracted across four …
Ramil Yusifov was sitting on the stairs in the yard of his house in Garalar village of Tovuz district, Azerbaijan, one day in 2017 when a gunshot hit his leg. He was only 14 years old. "We were all …
Irma* had not heard from her son, Javier*, for more than a year and assumed the worst. Her suspicions seemed about to be confirmed when, one afternoon in March 2022, two people wearing the Red Cross …
Statement Speech by Dr Gilles Carbonnier, vice-president of the ICRC at the 20th Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of …
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