414 Results for Africa

31-08-2015

The ICRC's Colombia delegation has launched a campaign entitled Human beings, inside and outside, promoting decent conditions in the country's prisons. The ICRC in Colombia is using this opportunity to highlight the organization's work in places of detention around the world.

27-08-2015

The anguish of not knowing what happened to loved ones who go missing can last for years. Added to the emotional and psychological turmoil, families are frequently left without economic support, access to inheritance, and with few resources to trace their missing family member. On the International Day of the Disappeared, (30 August), the ICRC is calling for greater support for affected families together with increased efforts to document the fate of missing persons. Such action could cut short the time families are left in anguish without answers.

24-08-2015

Geneva/Cancun, Mexico - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has voiced concern that many countries are still involved in illegal arms transfers despite having committed themselves to an international treaty to regulate the flow of such weapons.

24-08-2015

At the first conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (Cancun, Mexico 24-27 August), the International Committee of Red Cross says the illegal transfer of weapons is rife.

12-08-2015

For many Burundians on the run from the violence in their country, this will be home until it is safe enough to go back: Mahama Camp, a sprawling hillside of tents put up on Rwanda's eastern border with Tanzania in April 2015 to house 20,000 refugees. There are already around 30,000 refugees living here.

03-08-2015

WARNING: SOME OF THESE IMAGES COULD BE DISTRESSING <br><br>Seventy years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Red Cross hospitals are still treating thousands of survivors and identifying new links between radiation exposure and fatal illnesses.

08-07-2015

As fighting continues unabated across Yemen, millions of people are struggling to meet their basic needs. <br>

08-06-2015

As the world's newest country nears its fourth year of existence, South Sudan is facing a disastrous reality. <br>Extreme levels of violence in and around Leer over the last month have forced an estimated 100,000 people to flee their homes and to seek safety in low-lying swamps far from civilization.<br>

19-05-2015

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19-05-2015

El CICR est&aacute; sumamente preocupado por el clima de tensi&oacute;n que hoy impera en Burundi, en el periodo previo a las elecciones, as&iacute; como por las consecuencias que ello tiene en el plano humanitario para la poblaci&oacute;n.