Afghanistan: archive footage for media
Afghanistan is one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world with more than 18 million people in need of assistance.
We have treated more than 40,000 people wounded by weapons in June, July and August this year and, every day, those injured by mines and explosive devices are treated by ICRC medical teams and physical rehabilitation centres.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has worked to protect and assist those in need in Afghanistan since 1987 and remains operational across the country with our partner the Afghan Red Crescent Society.
KEY FACTS:
· Our seven rehabilitation/orthopedic facilities in Kabul, Jalalabad, Gulbar, Faizabad, Mazar-i-Sharif, Herat, and Lashkar Gah assisted 80,000 patients in the first half of the year; 14,000 were women. 7,000 new patients were registered between January to June. 700 had suffered amputated limbs.
· With the Norwegian Red Cross, ICRC supports 46 health facilities, mostly in rural areas. Our medical teams have provided 497,000 consultations so far this year, including 155,000 for women.
· ICRC currently has a team of over 1,800 staff across the country.
For further information, please contact:
Crystal Wells (English), cwells@icrc.org or +41 796 42 8056
Florian Seriex (French), ICRC Geneva, fseriex@icrc.org , +41 79 574 06 36
Ewan Watson (English and French), ewatson@icrc.org , +41 79 244 64 70
Established in 1863, the ICRC operates worldwide helping people affected by conflict and armed violence and promoting the laws that protect victims of war. A neutral, independent and impartial organization, its mandate stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
SHOTLIST
Length: 15:39
Format: H264 HD mp4
Copyright: ICRC access all
On Screen Credit: ICRC written or logo attached to story
00:00 – 00:26 Physical rehabilitation in Faizabad, August 25, 2021
Doctor looking at patient amputated leg
Doctor holding child patient amputated arm
Child learning to walk with prosthetic legs
Doctor fitting prosthetic leg on a patient
Patient learning to walk with a prosthetic leg
00:26 – 01:09 Kabul Orthopedic Center, 2019
Wide shots of Kabul from a hill (3 shots)
Gate of Kabul Orthopedic Center
ICRC car in the courtyard of Kabul Orthopedic Center
Patients in the courtyard of Kabul Orthopedic Center (3 shots)
01:09 – 01:36 Physical rehabilitation in Herat Orthopedic Center, 2019
Gate of Herat Orthopedic Center
Workers manufacturing prosthetic limbs (2 shots)
Doctor fitting prosthetic leg on a patient
Patient learning to walk with a prosthetic leg
01:36 – 02:14 Afghan football team for people with disabilities, 2016
Children with prosthetic limbs getting ready to play football
Men with disabilities practicing and playing football (4 shots)
02:14 – 03:09 Afghan wheelchair basketball team playing against Italy, 2014
Afghan wheelchair basketball team entering the court (2 shots)
Afghan players shaking Italian players hands
Afghan team playing against Italian team (4 shots)
Afghan players lining up together, hands on each other’s shoulders
03:09 – 04:16 Physical rehabilitation in Kabul Orthopedic Center, 2013
ICRC car driving through Kabul Orthopedic Center’s gate
ICRC doctor looking at patients
Patients learning to walk with a prosthetic leg
Patient putting his prosthetic leg on
Patient learning to walk with prosthetic legs
Workers manufacturing prosthetic limbs (4 shots)
Crouches
Orthopedic shoes
Prosthetic legs (3 shots)
04:16 – 05:07 Mirwais Regional Hospital, 2011
Mirwais Regional Hospital outdoor sign
Man pushing an injured man on a bed on the road in front of the hospital
Security guard checking on a man carrying his child on the road in front of the hospital
Man carrying his child walking toward the entrance of the hospital
Man carrying his child inside the hospital
Doctor checking on a baby
Doctors looking at a patient on his bed
Injured man looking at his face on a mirror
Patients lying on their beds (2 shots)
05:07 – 05:42 Mirwais Regional Hospital, 2009
Ambulance arriving at the door of the hospital
Several men putting an injured man on a stretcher
Man covered in blood lying face down in the ambulance
No weapons sign
Doctor checking on a patient’s bandaged leg
Child lying on a stretcher with both bandaged hands
ICRC doctor calming down a baby wearing an oxygen mask
05:42 – 06:04 Physical rehabilitation in Kabul Orthopedic Center, 2008
Patient learning to walk with a prosthetic leg with a doctor holding his hand, on flat ground, on a pipe and on stairs (3 shots)
06:04 – 06:27 Physical rehabilitation in Kabul Orthopedic Center, 2007
ICRC doctor (Alberto Cairo) checking on a patient’s amputated leg
ICRC doctor (Alberto Cairo) fitting prosthetic leg on a patient
Patient trying to walk with his prosthetic leg
ICRC doctor (Alberto Cairo) holding crouches for a young child walking with his prosthetic legs
06:27 – 07:10 Message service for families of detainees in Guantanamo and Bagram, 2006
ICRC delegate greeting an Afghan man
ICRC delegate showing a letter to this man
ICRC delegate and the man walking down the street
ICRC delegate explaining the process of messaging to the man
ICRC delegate walking with several men
ICRC delegate giving a letter to a boy
Man reading the letter to the boy
Men writing on a Red Cross Message letter
Close up of a Red Cross Message letter
07:10 – 08:29 Landmines in Afghanistan, 2006
Two men and a teenager walking up a hill
The teenager showing remnants of landmines to the two men
Close up of the remnants of landmines
ICRC delegate showing illustrations of landmines to several men and children (3 shots)
Group of boys walking by a mine-clearing expert
Mine-clearing expert scanning the ground (3 shots)
Mine-clearing expert taking out a knife and digging in the soil (2 shots)
ICRC delegate showing illustrations of landmines to a group of men (3 shots)
ICRC delegate giving away documentation on landmines to a group of men (2 shots)
08:29 – 09:25 Prisoners of war in Mazar-i-Sharif, 2002
ICRC car entering the detention yard
ICRC delegates entering the detention hangar
ICRC delegates talking to detainees (4 shots)
ICRC delegate talking to a detainee (3 shot)
09:25 – 09:56 Distribution in the Ghor province, 2001
ICRC trucks driving in the desert
A group of people in the desert looking at the ICRC truck arriving
An ICRC delegate telling a truck where to stop
Men carrying ICRC bags out of a truck
Men putting ICRC bags on their shoulders
Donkey carrying ICRC bags and people walking on a path in the desert
09:56 – 10:35 Reaching war victims behind the frontline in Panjshir, 2001
ICRC delegate (Alberto Cairo) putting a bag of prosthetic feet on a horse
Men taking wheelchairs out of a truck
Men putting wheelchairs on a horse
ICRC delegate (Alberto Cairo) walking by two horses
Wide shot of the mountain with men walking by horses
ICRC delegate (Alberto Cairo) walking by a horse on a narrow path
Man sitting on a tank
ICRC delegate (Alberto Cairo) talking to a group of men
10:35 – 12:02 Tools of peace, 1996
ICRC car driving on the road
ICRC delegate meeting with farmers (2 shots)
Farmers rebuilding the irrigation system (3 shots)
Men salvaging steel from an destroyed tank (2 shots)
Man hitting a piece of steel on the road
Men making shovels in a forge (2 shots)
Men unloading a truck in an ICRC hangar (3 shots)
ICRC delegate giving shovels and seeds to farmers (2 shots)
Farmer leaving the distribution with their new tools (2 shots)
Farmer using their new shovels
12:02 – 12:29 Ruins of Kabul, 1995
Destroyed buildings (4 shots)
Man with a machine gun by the hospital
12:29 – 13:57 ICRC Airlift Jalalabad to Kabul and evacuation of an injured child, 1994
Military cargo plane with ICRC emblem (2 shots)
Men loading the plane with ICRC parcels (3 shots)
View inside the cockpit (3 shots)
Military cargo plane with ICRC emblem
Men transferring the parcels from the plane to a truck (3 shots)
ICRC trucks and car driving to Kabul (2 shots)
Man put a child to an ICRC car (2 shots)
Child lying inside the ICRC car
Men opening the back door of the ICRC car
ICRC facility protected by sandbags
Men standing in front of the ICRC facility
13:57 – 15:39 ICRC in Afghanistan even during violent fights, 1993
Fighters hiding and shooting (5 shots)
Fighters standing on a tank
ICRC car driving on a dirt road
Man and a child in the back of the ICRC car
Men taking the child out of the ICRC car on a stretcher
Doctors putting a bandage on the injured hand of the child (2 shots)
Shell on a road by ICRC cars
Exterior view of an ICRC facility protected with sandbags, broken glass on the floor
Exterior and interior views of broken windows (3 shots)
Impacts of bullets on a wall and facility protected with sandbags
ICRC trucks in front of the ICRC sub-delegation in Jalalabad
ICRC trucks bringing aid, driving on mountain road (2 shots)
