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Ethiopia: children disproportionately affected by weapon contamination
08-10-2024
Rural areas of northern Ethiopia that have experienced heavy fighting in the past years remain heavily contaminated by unexploded ordnance. Weapon contamination poses severe risks for civilians, especially children.
ENG
Ukraine: Bolstering Support for People with Disability in Kharkiv
16-09-2024
The ICRC has launched a partnership with Kharkiv University Clinic and Ukraine’s Ministry of Health to provide physical rehabilitation support for the growing number of people in need due to amputations and disability caused by the armed conflict.
ENG UKR
Red Cross is stepping up prison visits in Somalia
26-03-2024
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is expanding its visits to detention places across Somalia in response to the escalation of the armed conflict.
ENG
Russia-Ukraine international armed conflict: 23,000 people still reported missing
19-02-2024
TheICRC is seeking to clarify the fate of 23,000 persons whose families have no news, either because they have been captured, killed, or because they lost contact after fleeing their homes. The pain of family separation comes on top of indescribable loss, suffering and rising humanitarian needs two years after the escalation of the armed conflict, including for millions of people displaced, both within and beyond the borders of the two countries.
ENG FRA UKR
Syria Earthquake: A day of tragedy with enduring impact
06-02-2024
On 6 February 2023, two earthquakes, each registering a magnitude of 7.8 struck the northwest region of the country. This natural disaster resulted in the tragic loss of thousands of lives and caused injuries to numerous others. Structures were devastated, leaving behind rubble where homes once stood.
ENG FRA العربية SPA POR RUS TUR
Ukraine: Thousands of families near the frontline receive heating materials to protect against harsh winter conditions
22-01-2024
Thousands of families living in frontline areas are exposed to freezing temperatures, especially given that vital utilities such as water and electricity have been hard-hit by ongoing hostilities.
ENG FRA العربية SPA POR RUS 中文 GER UKR
Somalia: Farmers fight fears of El Nino floods; ICRC delivers 75,000 sandbags
02-11-2023
For weeks, forecasts have warned of increased rains due to El Nino this season, with a 90% chance it will trigger severe flooding in the Horn of Africa. In Somalia, where the planting season just started, farmers have barely recovered from one of the harshest droughts in years and yet again find themselves faced with another climatic event they have no control over.
ENG
Karabakh: Searching for signs of life as winter approaches
19-10-2023
ICRC teams are visiting communities in Karabakh in their search to provide help to people after the huge exodus which followed the recent escalation of hostilities.
ENG
Gaza: Surgical team, 60 tons of humanitarian aid and medical items mobilised but access urgently needed
18-10-2023
A convoy carrying 60 tons of aid, including urgently needed medical items, from the ICRC has been mobilised for Gaza, but safe humanitarian access is urgently needed to deliver them to civilians in need.
ENG العربية
Azerbaijan and Armenia: Working to help people left behind in their homes
06-10-2023
Teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross are working to find people still in their homes after tens of thousands of people left the region.
ENG
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