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ICRC launches world's first 'Humanitarian Bond'
08-09-2017
Around the world, humanitarian needs are growing, and those needs will not disappear once the immediate crisis is over. The effects of conflict and catastrophe continue for decades, lifetimes even.
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Bethlehem: ICRC President meets trapped villagers of Beit Skaria
07-09-2017
Residents of the village of Beit Skaria traditionally grow fresh fruit and vegetables; grapes, olives, or figs. But their path to making a living can be a stony one. <br>Today the village is almost completely surrounded, trapped, in effect, by settlements.<br>It makes ordinary life, the simple act of getting from home, to work, and back again, extraordinarily difficult. <br>
ENG
Gaza: Ten Years On
04-09-2017
In recent months, Gaza has witnessed an accelerated and worrying degradation of the humanitarian situation. Restrictions imposed on the movement of people and goods, aggravated by internal Palestinian differences, has fenced off Gaza from the rest of the world and is suffocating its economy.
ENG
International Day of the Disappeared - Ukraine: Unbearable uncertainty for families of the missing
28-08-2017
For more than three years, eastern Ukraine has suffered conflict. Amid the world’s many other humanitarian crises, in Syria, or in Yemen for example, it can be easy to forget Ukraine. But the UN estimates that 10,000 people have lost their lives here since 2014. Thousands of families are grieving, and many, like Yuliia and Olha, have been condemned to wait for years to find out exactly what happened to their loved ones.
ENG RUS
South Sudan: One in three displaced, one in two severely hungry
22-08-2017
The numbers associated with South Sudan’s violence reveal the level of brutality being carried out against civilians. Of the country’s population of 12 million, one in three residents has been displaced, while one in two is severely hungry and in need of food assistance.
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Iraq: First time aid enters West Mosul
21-08-2017
The International Committee of the Red Cross is carrying out a major distribution of food and other essential items to more than 64,000 people in West Mosul. This is not only the first such distribution of its kind since the western part of the city was recaptured by the authorities on 10th July, but the first major delivery of aid to the area since Mosul was cut off from the world in 2014.
ENG العربية
Raqqa, Syria: Tens of thousands face harrowing living conditions after fleeing fighting
15-08-2017
While hundreds of thousands have managed to escape Raqqa city since April 2017 (205,000 people according to the UN), the fate of tens of thousands of civilians trapped in Raqqa city remains unknown.
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Mali: Sharp rise in war-wounded
04-08-2017
The number of war wounded is on the rise in northern Mali and therefore the need for war surgery. Since the beginning of the year, 268 war-wounded patients have been operated on by teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
ENG FRA
The Falklands/Malvinas War: Finally answers
22-06-2017
35 years after the end of the conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom, a forensics mission has just started on the islands. <br><br>For the next couple of months, scientists from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will collect DNA samples from the mortal remains of 123 unidentified Argentine soldiers buried in the Darwin cemetery.<br>
ENG SPA
Mosul, Iraq: Nowhere safe for civilians as battle intensifies
21-06-2017
The battle for Mosul is growing fiercer every day. In the narrow streets of the city’s old quarter, tens of thousands of civilians are still trapped. Staying could mean dying, but trying to escape could mean dying too. To get out, Mosul’s families: men, women and children, have to run a gauntlet of shells, bombs, and bullets.
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