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)