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Pakistan: Danger Posed by Unexploded Munitions
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 1:01 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva (ICRC) – Three young children were seriously wounded in Dera Ismail Khan this week by a homemade bomb that detonated when one of them touched it. The device was apparently dislodged from its original position by floodwaters before the children ... More >>
Pakistan's Devastating Floods Spread
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 12:49 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva (ICRC) – Weather forecasts remain a cause for concern in a country where, according to national authorities, at least 1,600 people have already died and more than 10 million are affected. Persistent heavy rain in Pakistan's north-west is hampering ... More >>
Legal database launched for War Victims
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 12:48 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva (ICRC) – To mark the 12 August anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is launching a new database of the organization's major study of customary international humanitarian law. Developed ... More >>
Preventive Health Measures In Flood-Affected Areas
Friday, 6 August 2010, 3:20 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva (ICRC) 04.10 – The ongoing devastating floods in Pakistan will have a severe impact on an already vulnerable population, says the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). More >>
Repatriating the remains of two Iranian soldiers
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 3:52 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Tehran/Baghdad (ICRC) – The mortal remains of two Iranian soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War were repatriated yesterday at the Shalamjah border crossing, near Basra, under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). More >>
Cluster Munitions: Banned At Last!
Friday, 30 July 2010, 5:35 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
The entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 1 August 2010 is a major step towards putting an end to the terrible suffering those weapons have caused for decades, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today. More >>
Pakistan: teaching journalists to save lives
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 1:33 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is providing training in first aid for journalists from Pakistan working in violence-affected areas. More >>
Iraq: providing for poor families during Ramadan
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 1:21 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Baghdad (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is helping more than 64,000 destitute Iraqis through the holy month of Ramadan by providing them with food and hygiene items. More >>
Haiti: First Evacuated Children Return Home
Friday, 9 July 2010, 4:55 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Seven Haitian children evacuated to Martinique immediately after the earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January were finally able to rejoin their families in Port-au-Prince on 7 July. More >>
Somalia: shelling of Mogadishu's Keysaney Hospital
Friday, 2 July 2010, 12:11 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva (ICRC) 1/07 – For the third consecutive day, shelling is taking place near Keysaney Hospital in northern Mogadishu. Two more mortar shells have hit the hospital, causing damage to the structure. On 29 June a first shell killed one patient and ... More >>
New ICRC executive team assumes office
Friday, 2 July 2010, 12:10 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva (ICRC) – The new Directorate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – the organization's executive body – which will take up its duties on 1 July, has outlined its priorities for the next four years. While emphasizing that ... More >>
Kyrgyzstan: ICRC president focuses on needs
Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 12:44 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva/Bishkek (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, has completed a one-day visit to Kyrgyzstan, where he met in the capital Bishkek with Roza Otunbayeva, the country's president for the ... More >>
ICRC president to visit Kyrgyzstan
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 1:19 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva/Bishkek (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, is on his way to Kyrgyzstan. During a one-day visit on 29 June he will hold talks with Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the interim government, ... More >>
Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan: water and food distributed
Monday, 21 June 2010, 1:15 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Although a state of relative calm has prevailed over the last two days, the situation remains tense and worrying, and not only in southern Kyrgyzstan. The ICRC has started distributing water and food in response to the urgent needs of tens of thousands ... More >>
Humanitarian assistance flight arrives in Andijan
Friday, 18 June 2010, 1:16 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva/Moscow/Tashkent (ICRC) A first planeload of humanitarian aid dispatched by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) landed yesterday morning in the city of Andijan, in eastern Uzbekistan near the border with Kyrgyzstan. More >>
Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan: Humanitarian Catastrophe
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 5:52 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a preliminary emergency appeal for 10 million Swiss francs to assist 100,000 people affected by the brutal violence in southern Kyrgyzstan over the next month. More >>
Gaza Closure: Not Another Year!
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 5:47 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
The hardship faced by Gaza's 1.5 million people cannot be addressed by providing humanitarian aid. The only sustainable solution is to lift the closure. More >>
Kyrgyzstan: Emergency Services Overwhelmed
Monday, 14 June 2010, 2:22 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
The humanitarian situation in southern Kyrgyzstan is becoming critical, as brutal ethnic clashes continue to overwhelm the security and emergency services in the country, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Sunday. More >>
Kyrgyzstan : ICRC Urges Restraint
Sunday, 13 June 2010, 11:29 am | International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely concerned about the worsening humanitarian situation in southern Kyrgyzstan following ongoing ethnic clashes in and around the city of Osh. More >>
ICRC assists record numbers of IDPs
Thursday, 10 June 2010, 2:03 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva (ICRC) 9/06 In 2009, some 4.6 million internally displaced people (IDPs) – 20% more than in 2008 – benefited from humanitarian assistance provided by the ICRC, in association with National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in 33 countries ... More >>
