Kinshasa / Geneva (ICRC) – More than 100,000 people are estimated to have fled their homes since armed clashes resumed between Congolese government troops and the armed opposition in North and South Kivu provinces on 28 August last.

Tel Aviv / Jerusalem (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today expressed its concern about the suffering of men, women and children taking no direct part in the ongoing conflict between Palestinian militants and the Israeli armed forces.

Geneva (ICRC) – The Palestinian population living in the occupied territories is facing a worsening humanitarian crisis as a result of the drastic deterioration of the situation there.

Geneva (ICRC) – On 12 December, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), acting as a neutral intermediary, facilitated the transfer of two civilians, who had been detained in Baku and in Nagorny Karabakh respectively.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC's delegation in Tel Aviv

Geneva/Tel Aviv (ICRC) – A growing number of households in the Palestinian territories are becoming impoverished, according to a report recently completed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Geneva (ICRC) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, today concluded a four-day visit to war-torn Lebanon and Israel during which he pressed the warring parties to spare civilian lives and infrastructure and to better respect the rules of warfare as enshrined in international humanitarian law.

Colombo/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the injuries, loss of life and displacement of civilians resulting from the current upsurge in fighting between the Sri Lankan security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Muttur, Sampur and Mavil Aaru areas of Trincomalee district.

Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by the increasing number of civilian casualties resulting from the ongoing armed conflict.

Geneva (ICRC) – One week after the start of the latest armed hostilities in Lebanon, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely concerned about the grave consequences that military action is still having on the civilian population.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed about the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the humanitarian consequences of the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip in recent days.

The privatization of war is the topic of a conference to take place today and tomorrow in Warsaw.

Geneva/Tel Aviv (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by the number of civilians killed or injured during attacks and military operations in Israel and in the occupied and autonomous territories over recent weeks.

Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, arrives in Khartoum this evening for what will be his second visit to Sudan this year.

"We are deeply concerned by the devastating impact that the fighting in Iraq is having on the people of that country."- Statement by Pierre Krähenbühl, Director of Operations of the ICRC

Geneva /Tbilisi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the consequences in humanitarian terms of the current situation in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone following the recent escalation of violence there.

Geneva (ICRC) –There has recently been a degree of publicly expressed confusion regarding the future of persons currently deprived of their freedom in Iraq.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely alarmed about the escalation of violence throughout Iraq and fears a further deterioration of the already precarious humanitarian situation in the country.

Geneva / Port-au-Prince (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appealed to donors for 4.6 million Swiss francs to meet the cost of its emergency operations in Haiti for the next four months. The funds are needed primarily to cover a substantial increase in surgical and other medical aid to hospitals in order to ensure appropriate care for the wounded and sick.

Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC is increasingly concerned about the humanitarian impact of the West Bank Barrier on many Palestinians living in occupied territory.

On 19 December, 129 Ethiopian civilians returned from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the ICRC. The group crossed the border on a bridge over the Mereb river, between the towns of Adi Quala, in Eritrea, and Rama, on the Ethiopian side.

Tel Aviv, 23 July 2002 (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned with the escalating spiral of violence over the past two weeks in Israel, the Occupied and the Autonomous Territories which is causing an increasing number of casualties among civilians.

The African Parliamentary Union's first Conference on International Humanitarian Law for the Protection of Civilians during Armed Conflict in Africa will begin in the Niger capital Niamey on 18 February with an opening address by Mr Mahamane Ousmane, President of the country's National Assembly.