Geneva (ICRC) – Millions of people already suffering because of armed conflicts are likely to be particularly hard hit by the current increase in food prices, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned today.

Geneva (ICRC) – The ICRC's Annual Report, (published 27 May 2008), announces spending to help people whose lives have been wrecked by armed conflict among the highest ever. The organisation's total expenditure reached 944 million Swiss Francs in 2007, with 45 per cent of field expenditure going to Africa and 21 per cent to the Middle East. The sum is a little under the total for 2006.

Geneva (ICRC) – "The intensification of a number of conflicts around the world in 2006, often accompanied by large-scale internal displacement, caused immeasurable suffering and presented complex humanitarian challenges", said Jakob Kellenberger, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on launching the ICRC's annual report to donors in Geneva.

The ICRC's Annual Report 2005, just published in Geneva, paints a grim picture of the impact of armed conflict and violence on civilians. They face killing, injury, displacement, rape and sexual harassment, forced labour and recruitment, detention, and the destruction of property and of the means of survival. The collapse of basic services in areas such as health, water and education exacerbates their suffering.

During the public launch in Geneva of the ICRC Annual Report for 2004, President Jakob Kellenberger set out the major operations in favour of war victims worldwide.

Geneva (ICRC) – Despite increased security threats, independent and neutral humanitarian action continues to help and protect millions of people affected by armed conflicts. As illustrated in the 2003 Annual Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), this fact holds true for armed conflicts such as the one in Iraq, which attracted most public attention over the year, but also numerous other war zones across the globe where the ICRC was active.

Geneva (ICRC) – The increase in acts of deliberate terror against civilians and the struggle against their perpetrators have added a new dimension to the ever more complex nature of armed conflict. This is one of the issues taken up in the 2002 Annual Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).