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Love Behind Bars In The Time Of Covid-19
14-02-2021
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, detainees around the world struggled to establish or maintain contact with their loved ones. With public health restrictions such as the suspension of face-to-face visits in many countries over the past year, the challenge has increased tenfold.
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Ethiopia: Red Cross sends medicines, relief supplies to Mekelle to fortify paralyzed health care facilities
12-12-2020
A convoy organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society carrying medicines and relief supplies has reached the Tigray State capital, Mekelle, where health care facilities have become paralyzed after supplies of drugs and basics like surgical gloves ran out.
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Video news footage: conflict and COVID-19 pandemic doubly impact education in Butig, Philippines
03-11-2020
In Mindanao, the Philippines’ island in the south, protracted conflicts and constant displacement has seriously disrupted young people’s access to education. The long-term repercussions of this for children and the community at large are barely reported.
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Libya: Sabha struggles with COVID-19 spread and economic fallout
16-07-2020
In Sabha Medical Centre in southern Libya, nurses are doing the job they were trained for, not letting conflict or coronavirus, deter them.
ENG FRA العربية RUS
ICRC report: Climate change and conflict are a cruel combo that stalk the world’s most vulnerable
09-07-2020
Geneva (ICRC) – Countries affected by conflict are also disproportionately impacted by climate change, a double threat that pushes people out of their homes, disrupts food production, cuts off supplies, amplifies diseases and weakens health-care services.
ENG FRA العربية SPA POR
Facebook and Red Cross Launch #AfricaTogether, a Campaign Calling for Vigilance against Covid-19
04-06-2020
Facebook and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are partnering to launch #AfricaTogether – a digital campaign and two-day festival on June 4th and 5th featuring artists from across Africa to encourage continued vigilance against Covid-19.
ENG FRA
Millions of people living through the horrors of conflict and war are now pushed to the brink of survival by COVID-19
03-06-2020
The ongoing economic and food security impact of COVID-19 is massive and appears likely to worsen over time.
ENG FRA العربية
Fighting COVID-19 in prisons is difficult; ICRC is working on preventative measures in the largest prison in Lebanon.
07-05-2020
Overcrowded, unhygienic and poorly ventilated cells create the perfect conditions for a virus to spread. Detainees are particularly vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 as clean water can be a luxury and soap may be non-existent in many places of detention.
ENG FRA العربية
Helping The Displaced In Bangladesh As Covid-19 Looms
29-04-2020
Hundreds of thousands of people, displaced by violence in Myanmar, live in crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh. It is a precarious existence at the best of times; when so many people live so close together, disease can spread easily.
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Asia: ICRC Steps up support in congested jails as COVID-19 looms
21-04-2020
With Covid-19 now spreading on every continent, distancing has become the new normal. But the rules for avoiding infection are almost impossible in prison.
ENG FRA
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