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Syria: Suffering in Eastern Ghouta reaches “critical point”
09-01-2018
Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by the intensifying fighting in Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, which is taking an unacceptable toll on everyday life in the area. At the same time, several neighbourhoods of the city of Damascus continue to be affected by the hostilities.
ENG FRA SPA العربية RUS POR 中文
Iraq: Has peace come to Mosul?
05-01-2018
The battle for Mosul is over, but for thousands of families, the grief and horror continues. Some are trying, in the ruins of their city, to pay tribute to those who died. In the district of Zanjili, clothes and keepsakes are hung on walls, even cars abandoned among the rubble have become a memorial.<br>
ENG العربية
Syria: Urgent medical evacuations underway in Eastern Ghouta
28-12-2017
So far, 16 patients, the majority children, have been medically evacuated with their families from Eastern Ghouta to Damascus by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). They are now in hospitals receiving life-saving treatment.
ENG العربية
Falkland/Malvinas Islands: ICRC presents results of humanitarian forensic identification project
01-12-2017
Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has today handed out its forensic reports resulting from the work it carried out to identify the mortal remains of Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery.
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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...
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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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Exhibition marks ICRC’s 25 years in Armenia
27-11-2017
An exhibition highlighting the anguish of families whose loved ones have been missing in connection with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was organized to mark 25 years of the ICRC’s presence in the region.
ENG
Building the Future: Girls go back to School in Ramadi, Iraq
06-11-2017
ICRC works to re-open girls' school on the front line for 600 students
ENG العربية
Central African Republic: ICRC condemns killing of staff member
05-11-2017
Bangui/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is shocked and saddened by the killing of one of its staff in the Central African Republic.
ENG
Marawi’s returnees: Health care and safe water top priority
03-11-2017
Manila (ICRC) - Thousands of displaced residents of Marawi City started their journey home earlier this week, several days after the government officially declared the end of armed clashes between its forces and IS Ranao fighters.Five months of conflict caused low-to-medium-scale damage to around...
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