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.

Geneva/Manila (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Philippine National Red Cross have jointly begun bringing aid to the more than 80,000 people displaced in the southern Philippines by recent hostilities between the armed forces and fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Tbilisi / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is preparing to fly 15 tonnes of medicines and medical supplies to Georgia early this week to help treat people injured in the international armed conflict between Georgian, South Ossetian and Russian troops.

Geneva/Tbilisi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is very concerned about the humanitarian impact of the escalation of violence between Georgia and the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

N'Djamena (ICRC) – On 26 July an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was shot and wounded in Abéché after two vehicles carrying ICRC personnel were stopped by armed men, some of whom were in military uniform.

Beirut / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on all those involved in the current armed clashes taking place in Bab Tebbaneh, Jabal Mohsen and Kobbeh to spare the population and facilitate evacuation of all the wounded.

Geneva/Khartoum (ICRC) – In response to fighting over the past two days in Omdurman, part of greater Khartoum, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delivered medical supplies to the main hospital there on Sunday.

Beirut / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on all those involved in the current armed violence in Lebanon to spare the lives of innocents and facilitate evacuation of the wounded.

Dakar / Geneva (ICRC) – On 26 and 27 March the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited 35 Malian soldiers and two police officers being held by Ibrahim Ag Bahanga’s armed group in north-eastern Mali.

Jerusalem / Tel Aviv (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross, in cooperation with the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Palestine Ministry of Health, is launching an awareness campaign in the occupied Palestinian territories to highlight the need to safeguard the work of medical personnel and health facilities.

Islamabad/Geneva (ICRC) – An employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), seized by an unidentified group two weeks ago near Peshawar in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, was freed on 16 February. No ransom was paid.

Geneva (ICRC) – An employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been killed during fighting in and around Seleia, West Darfur. He was a 45-year-old Sudanese national and father of six children.

Islamabad/Geneva (ICRC) – Two employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been missing in Pakistan since Saturday, 2 February.

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.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement strongly condemns the abduction and murder of a volunteer of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society in Jaffna on 14 December.

On 14 December 2007, 368 persons were repatriated from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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.

Kabul/Geneva (ICRC) – Four staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were released today after being seized by an armed group in Wardak Province, south-west of Kabul on 26 September.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned by the attack carried out yesterday on a Somali Red Crescent pickup truck.

Geneva (ICRC) – Today, 2 July 2007, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) completed the evacuation of 30 Forces Armées du Niger (FAN) personnel injured during armed clashes in the north of the country.

Bukavu (ICRC) – An upsurge of violence in South Kivu has forced thousands of families to flee their villages.

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Geneva/Colombo – Senior officials of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement met in Geneva this morning with the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse, to seek information on action taken by the Sri Lankan authorities after the murder of two staff members of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society earlier this month.

Tel Aviv / Jerusalem - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply disturbed by the events in Gaza over the last two days, particularly the attacks in and around two hospitals in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Joint press release by the Lebanese Red Cross, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Joint press release by the ICRC, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society Colombo/Geneva – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement strongly condemns the abduction and murder of two Sri Lanka Red Cross Society staff members which occurred in the capital Colombo on 1 June.

Beirut/Geneva (ICRC) – Following the resumption of heavy fighting this morning in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared, near Tripoli in northern Lebanon, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on all parties involved to spare civilians not taking a direct part in the hostilities and to refrain from attacking civilian infrastructure.

Geneva / Beirut (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the recent escalation of violence in Lebanon.

Geneva / Sanaa (ICRC) – A humanitarian aid convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Yemeni Red Crescent Society came under heavy gunfire in al Saifi, 18 km north of the town of Saada in northern Yemen, on 2 May.

As the deadly series of bomb attacks and military operations continue in Iraq, claiming scores of victims, the ICRC is regularly delivering medical and surgical supplies to hospitals and other health facilities in various parts of the country.

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

Kathmandu (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called for medical personnel and medical transports in Nepal to be spared in all circumstances.

Geneva/Colombo (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is increasingly alarmed by the hostilities, including shelling, in the Vakarai area, where a hospital is located around which thousands of civilians have gathered.

On Sunday 17 December a number of Iraqi Red Crescent Society staff and volunteers and other persons were abducted from one of the Society’s offices in Baghdad. As of today, some have been released, but many are still being held.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called today for the immediate and unconditional release of all persons abducted from one of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society offices in Baghdad.

Geneva (ICRC) – The two Italian Red Cross staff members abducted on 21 November in the southern Gaza Strip were released unharmed nine hours later.

Geneva (ICRC) – Two Italian Red Cross staff members were abducted by unknown persons at 3.30 p.m. local time today while travelling in a vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at Mahfouza junction, in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis.

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 / Tel Aviv (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the death on 3 November of two Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedics in the Gaza Strip and is deeply shocked and saddened by this event.

The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Colombo on September 30 2006

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the heavy impact of hostilities on civilians and on Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) emergency medical personnel and assets.

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) strongly condemns the killing of 15 national employees of the French humanitarian organization Action Contre la Faim (ACF) in the town of Muttur, Trincomalee district, Sri Lanka.

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 / Tel Aviv (ICRC) – During a military operation in Nablus that began on the night of 18 July, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) occupied the premises of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), blocking the entrance and hindering the movement of ambulances, patients and staff.

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.

Geneva (ICRC) – Mogadishu's Keysaney hospital was taken by armed fighters today, despite repeated calls by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Somali Red Crescent Society for medical facilities to be spared. The hospital was clearly marked with the red crescent emblem.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Timor-Leste Red Cross are deeply concerned about the effects on people of the recent upsurge of violence in Timor Leste's capital Dili. The clashes between various entities, including police forces, the army and former members of the security forces, have led to loss of life, injuries, destruction of property and the displacement of thousands of people from their homes.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS), alarmed by the heavy loss of life and the suffering of civilians in the upsurge of violent and indiscriminate armed clashes in Mogadishu, call again for restraint in the fighting.

Following recent incidents, the ICRC has called on parties to the conflict to refrain from targeting humanitarian workers.

Geneva (ICRC) – An escalation in the fighting in Afghanistan in recent weeks has resulted in loss of life and displacement of civilians. The number of civilian casualties has risen as a result of clashes – especially in the south – between armed opposition groups on one side and the Afghan armed forces and Coalition forces on the other, and also as a result of indiscriminate attacks.

Geneva (ICRC) – Over the past weeks, Sri Lanka has been facing an upsurge in violence that has resulted in loss of human life and the displacement of civilians as well as an increasing number of civilian casualties due to attacks with explosive devices in the North and East of the country.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Somali Red Crescent Society are extremely concerned about the consequences in humanitarian terms of the intense armed clashes currently under way in Mogadishu.

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 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories following the attack by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on the prison in Jericho and the abduction of civilians by Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip. The civilians abducted included humanitarian workers and an ICRC delegate, who was later released.

Geneva/Baghdad (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely concerned about the escalating violence in Iraq.

Regional Central European seminar on the implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of armed conflict and its first and second Protocols, Warsaw, 2-4 October 2005.

Geneva (ICRC) – The office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Grozny is suspending its work today for one day. It has been two years since Usman Saidaliev, one of the ICRC's employees in Chechnya, disappeared.

Following the attack on a civilian bus in Chitwan that killed 34 persons and injured many more on Monday 6 June, local Red Cross volunteers based at a nearby school were on the spot within minutes to administer first aid.Nepal Red Cross Society ambulances then took the wounded to hospitals.

Geneva/Baghdad - The ICRC expresses its deep concern about the recent escalation of violence resulting in very high numbers of civilian casualties in Iraq and civilians being caught in the midst of the fighting. In several attacks, including car bombs in Baghdad and in other places in Iraq, scores of civilians were killed.

Geneva (ICRC) – Following more than eight years of research, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has made public a study of customary international humanitarian law applicable during armed conflict.

Geneva/Manila (ICRC) – For the past 30 years the Philippines has been the scene of violence opposing various armed groups and government forces.

Geneva/Kathmandu (ICRC) – For the past nine years Nepal has been steeped in violence and more than 10,000 lives have been lost to date.

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 (ICRC) -- The ICRC reminds all those involved in the armed confrontations in Iraq that international humanitarian law prohibits the killing or harming of civilians who are not directly taking part in the hostilities.

The recent clashes in Abidjan have taken a heavy toll. According to hospital figures, well over 400 people were treated Sunday, some for life-threatening injuries including wounds from live ammunition. No reliable figures are available on deaths, but there are indications of a high number.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the resumption of hostilities in Côte d’Ivoire and their dramatic consequences for the people of that country.

More than sixty state officials have gathered in Russia's second city to attend the third regional conference held to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Hague Convention

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) – On 14 May 1954, a Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict was adopted, under the aegis of UNESCO.

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.

Geneva/Cairo (ICRC) – "Recent events have shown how important it is to ensure the protection of cultural property in situations of armed conflict." This was the message conveyed today by Jacques Forster, vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), at a seminar that the organization is hosting in Cairo together with the Egyptian National Committee on International Humanitarian Law, the Egyptian Red Crescent Society and UNESCO.

Moscow/Nalchik (ICRC) - Six months ago to this day Usman Saidaliev, a Chechen employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Grozny, was abducted from his home during the night by unidentified armed men. Since then neither Usman's family nor the ICRC have had any news of his whereabouts.

From 16 to 18 December, 26 surgeons from the northern Caucasus took part in the first-ever seminar on war surgery organized by the ICRC in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino Balkaria.

Between 2 and 16 December, an ICRC team including a doctor visited Moroccan prisoners in the hands of the Polisario Front. The delegates spoke individually with 291 of the 614 prisoners still being held (188 of whom have been in captivity for over 20 years).

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.

Jerusalem (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is increasingly concerned about repeated incidents in the Occupied and Autonomous Territories that demonstrate a lack of respect for the medical mission.

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.

Geneva (ICRC) -The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the United States' reaffirmation of the applicability of the Third Geneva Convention to the international armed conflict in Afghanistan, and its recognition of the treaty's importance and value.