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Aid reaches thousands displaced by clashes in Maguindanao
30-11-2017
Manila (ICRC) - Thousands of displaced families in central Mindanao’s Maguindanao province have been deprived of basic everyday necessities as intense fighting persists in the area.To help around 11,600 people in Shariff Saydona Mustapha municipality, the International Committee of the Red Cross...
ENG 中文
ICRC calls attention to overlooked humanitarian tragedy of missing migrants with powerful new website
29-11-2017
(Geneva) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today launches a new website - missingmigrants.icrc.org - calling global attention to the human stories behind the humanitarian tragedies of those who go missing along migration routes.The website is part of a concerted effort by the...
ENG SPA 中文
20 Years after Ottawa: Landmines still Destroy Lives
29-11-2017
It is 20 years since the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines was adopted, but the legacy of these devastating weapons lives on. Landmines need just an instant to create a catastrophic injury that lasts a lifetime. And for decades, landmines were used in huge numbers, all over the world. In the years before the Convention, Erik Tollefsen, the ICRC’s head of Weapons Contamination, remembers mine clearance as an almost hopeless task.
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CHINA: Experts discuss the control of arms in international and domestic law
28-11-2017
Beijing (ICRC) - A round table on The control of arms in international and domestic law: Legal and Policy Considerations , co-organized by the International committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA), takes place in Beijing today.
ENG 中文
Two billion CHF to fund critical humanitarian operations in 2018
28-11-2017
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has asked its donors for more than 2 billion Swiss Francs to fund its field operations in 2018, to assist and protect millions of people affected by conflict and other situations of violence.
ENG SPA العربية 中文
Yemen: Border closure shuts down water, sewage systems, raising cholera risk
17-11-2017
With imports of fuel and other essential goods at a standstill for the past ten days, three Yemeni cities had to stop providing clean water in recent days, putting close to one million people at risk of a renewed cholera outbreak and other water-borne diseases.
ENG FRA SPA العربية POR 中文
Sahel: Security concerns obscuring five-country humanitarian emergency
14-11-2017
Dakar/Geneva (ICRC) - The precarious security situation in Africa's Sahel region is overshadowing a massive humanitarian crisis affecting 12 million people in five countries, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today.Armed conflict, trans-national crime and climate hazards are...
ENG FRA SPA العربية
Ukraine: Another winter on the frontline
13-11-2017
Kyiv (ICRC) - With cold weather approaching, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has increased its assistance to people still badly affected by the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.
ENG RUS
Rwanda: Future lawyers square up in simulated war-crimes trial
13-11-2017
Law students get ready for the second National Moot Court Competition.
ENG
Shaping the future of the world’s largest humanitarian movement
11-11-2017
A major conference has adopted a series of measures that will shape the efforts of the world's largest humanitarian movement to respond to the needs of people affected by crises.
ENG FRA SPA العربية
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