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ICRC: More conflicts, more sides in a conflict equal greater danger: study
19-06-2018
The number of non-international armed conflicts more than doubled from the beginning of the century, according to data from the ICRC.
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When war hits home: ICRC's devastating new augmented reality app
12-03-2018
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has unveiled "Enter the room", an augmented reality experience for iOS app users.
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Colombia: Victims must be at the centre of the public agenda
06-03-2018
For the ICRC, the most critical humanitarian challenge currently facing the country is finding the people who have disappeared as a result of the armed conflict and violence. Bogotá (ICRC) - The challenges of implementing the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary...
ENG FRA SPA RUS POR
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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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
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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