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10-02-2016 Syria: Aid stepped up amidst heavy fighting in Aleppo province
10-02-2016 Georgia/South Ossetia: Ninth meeting held in Ergneti to seek answers on fate of missing persons from conflicts of 1990s and 2008
09-02-2016 Liberia: Armed Forces of Liberia receive international humanitarian law manual
30-01-2016 Syria: Desperate population needs regular unimpeded aid, whatever talks outcome
28-01-2016 Palestinian hunger striker in critical state
23-01-2016 Ukraine crisis: Best practices in dead body recovery discussed in Lugansk
15-01-2016 South Sudan remains a high priority for ICRC
13-01-2016 ICRC calls for immediate and simultaneous lifting of all sieges across Syria
11-01-2016 Syria: Key operation begins to bring aid to people in besieged areas
30-12-2015 Winners of the 2015 Young Humanitarian Writers Competition

Syria Pledging Conference: ICRC President's call to the international community

Syria Pledging Conference: ICRC President's call to the international community

Syria conflict: Siege and suffering

Syria conflict: Siege and suffering

Brussels movie theatres: An animation about Sexual violence in armed conflicts

Brussels movie theatres: An animation about Sexual violence in armed conflicts

Ukraine: Residents rebuild war-damaged homes with ICRC support

Ukraine: Residents rebuild war-damaged homes with ICRC support

RT @RMardiniICRC: We're stepping up aid together with @SARC_Aleppo: delivered food & water tanks for 20k families. More including medicines to follow soon.

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RT @RMardiniICRC: #Aleppo: We're very worried @ICRC for the 50k #Syrians who fled the fighting & those who chose to stay. All are striving to survive. #Syria

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RT @RMardiniICRC: #Aleppo: We're very worried @ICRC for the 50k #Syrians who fled the fighting & those who chose to stay. All are striving to survive. #Syria

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RT @RMardiniICRC: #Aleppo: We're very worried @ICRC for the 50k #Syrians who fled the fighting & those who chose to stay. All are striving to survive. #Syria

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RT @RMardiniICRC: Yet again a new cycle of violence in #Aleppo. Tough conditions for tens of thousands of people. The situation was already desperate before.

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RT @YDaccordICRC: Time frame was the means to differentiate #humanitarian from development actors. This is over. Humanitarian crises last for years.

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RT @ICRC: Kids in #Eritrea enjoy their new water source – a well powered by the sun: ow.ly/YaKll pic.twitter.com/kwWwdYVcZe

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Kids in #Eritrea enjoy their new water source – a well powered by the sun: ow.ly/YaKll pic.twitter.com/kwWwdYVcZe

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RT @PMeigeICRC: And co-creation such as Makeathons - new ways to engage all stakeholders enablemakeathon.org #ResilienceInAction twitter.com/PMeigeICRC/sta…

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RT @PMeigeICRC: Crowdsourcing innovation is critical to future humanitarian action #ResilienceinAction redinnovation.org

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RT @PMeigeICRC: A6: It is about exchange of knowledge and expertise. Emergencies are more complex than ever. 1/2 #ResilienceInAction twitter.com/devex/status/6…

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RT @PMeigeICRC: A2: The question of connectivity will be a game changer in the next years #ResilienceInAction twitter.com/devex/status/6…

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When you re-fuel your car next time, smoothly & quickly, give a thought to all Yemenis who have to endure this pic.twitter.com/CSUdDHFXKR

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What is #ResilienceinAction? Join our #TwitterChat today with @PMeigeICRC, @Federation, @grp_resilience & @devex. pic.twitter.com/abqaai04pX

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#Conflict has forced thousands to seek refuge in #Lebanon. How did we help in 2015? ow.ly/Y9ZX1 pic.twitter.com/WqR0pRI1M8

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Are you keen to work with us? Are you a doctor? Live chat with our recruiters on March, 10th. Sign up today at gcfjobs.com/1SMncxA #jobs

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Analyzing & addressing #HCID at local level: Good job #Karachi ! @indushospitalpk @rsilpakorg #JPMC #Pakistan @ICRC youtube.com/watch?v=NQNUAX…

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RT @MSF_Syria: #MSF renews its calls for the protection of civilian life and the respect of health facilities by all parties pic.twitter.com/2uPq9kNeGb

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RT @MSF_Syria: Airstrikes have hit an #MSF-supported hospital in Dara’a governorate, southern #Syria pic.twitter.com/mjnagAeic6

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ICRC’s #Legal Division is #hiring six paid #trainees for 1 year at its headquarters in #Geneva bit.ly/20okoHk #Law #IHL #Apply

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