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3-9-2009 News release Switzerland: dedication to humanity brings award for ICRC
Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is to receive the "Prix des Générations 2009" from the World Demographic & Ageing Forum, honouring the organization's commitment to humanity.(News) |
23-6-2009 News release South Africa: opening of the Red Cross exhibition "150 years of humanity"
Pretoria (ICRC) - Minister of Public Enterprises Barbara Hogan will officially open an art and photo exhibition entitled "150 years of humanity: the Red Cross in Action" on 24 June at the Old Woman's Jail, Constitution Hill, Pretoria. The exhibition is being hosted by the ICRC's Pretoria Regional Delegation.(News) |
4-6-2009 News release Pakistan: ICRC and Pakistan Red Crescent substantially expanding operations
Geneva/Islamabad (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is stepping up its support for people affected by fighting in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). The organization will work closely with the Pakistan Red Crescent Society and other partners within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.(News) |
31-3-2009 News release Hungary: posthumous "Righteous among the Nations" award
bestowed on war-time ICRC representative
Budapest/Pannonhalma (ICRC) – The Israeli ambassador to Hungary handed over the prestigious "Righteous among the Nations" award today to Bishop Asztrik Varszegi, arch-abbot of Pannonhalma Abbey in western Hungary, in honour of Eduard Benedikt Brunschweiler, a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who arranged to shelter refugees in the abbey buildings in the final months of the Second World War. Brunschweiler died in 1987 at the age of 77.(News) |
19-12-2008 News release International tracing Service: new director takes over
ITS (Bad Arolsen) / ICRC (Geneva) – The outgoing director of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Reto Meister, handed over official business to his successor Jean-Luc Blondel at the organization’s year-end ceremony yesterday.(News) |
27-11-2008 News release Victims of armed conflict face increased vulnerability in 2009
Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking donors for more than 1.1 billion Swiss francs (714 million euros / 939 million US dollars) to fund its worldwide efforts to help people affected by armed conflict and other violence in 2009.(News) |
27-10-2008 News release Spain: ICRC president hands over Spanish Civil War documents
Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, is in Spain today to officially hand over to the government a set of copies of documents from the organization's archives relating to its activities during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).(News) |
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