International Committee of the Red Cross

The one gift Santa can't deliver

Gaza photographer captures images of desperate isolation

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24-12-2018

A gift and a toy: Growing up in the shadow of South Sudan’s war

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14-12-2018

St. Petersburg Declaration: Victory of humanity in war

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29-11-2018

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Saudi Arabia: High level workshop for military personnel in Tabuk
23-12-2018
Libya-Egypt: two years on, twelve children reunited with their families
20-12-2018
Ethiopia: Historic reforms encouraging; country’s displaced must not be forgotten
14-12-2018
Digital trails could endanger people receiving humanitarian aid, ICRC and Privacy International find
07-12-2018
Yemen: Agreement to release, transfer and repatriate detainees in relation to conflict
06-12-2018

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This is why we will never stop searching for those who have gone missing in war: • It relieves families’ suffering… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC
Caught between #Ebola and the machete in Democratic Republic of Congo bit.ly/2FY3otJ #ICRC
We must never allow ourselves to become numb to human suffering in war. dontbenumb.icrc.org pic.twitter.com/GjOMxfsPez #ICRC
Children play on a makeshift ferris wheel in #Gaza. Today, 7 out of 10 people depend on aid to survive in Gaza, wh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC
Raqqa. Aleppo. Mosul. Taiz. Homs. Fallujah. Zabadani. Sana'a. Ramadi. Kobane. Idlib. The list goes on..… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC
In Syria, 1.75 million children are out of school. In Yemen, 2 million children are out of school. In South Sudan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC
South Sudan is a country the size of France, yet it has only 300 kilometres of paved roads. Reaching those in nee… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC
Millions of people depend on agriculture and livestock to survive. Climate change is reducing arable land. Today it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC
Their story didn't need to end like this. pic.twitter.com/6z0GYuJXpZ #ICRC
Tea time in #Gaza where a new pilot project is providing home kits that turn household waste into cooking gas and o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC
No child should suffer this. No parent should have to watch their child starve to death. Yemen can't wait. pic.twitter.com/iDo3SyQTgL #ICRC
Because families belong together. pic.twitter.com/06N4ZJczhU #ICRC
“I am 33 years old and I have never been on an airplane.” Abdel Rahman Zagout won @ICRC_ilot's 2018 photo competi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC
Can virtual reality bring people closer to understanding the human cost of war? pic.twitter.com/tYg6coK15g #ICRC
The rules of war in a photograph: pic.twitter.com/6LS79m30G7 #ICRC
War separated Sarah and Bolis from their family for four years in South Sudan. This year, we brought them home.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC
One from the archives. #TBT pic.twitter.com/xPaHVCYIMn #ICRC
These girls in Iraq are survivors. These girls are storytellers. #Bestof2018 pic.twitter.com/Hr5YaLVTqR #ICRC
'I can't look at the sea, my son is there': Daniel Tchetchik captures stories of loss. haaretz.com/world-news/eur… #ICRC_ilot
As an emergency response, @ICRC_sy distributed last week with @SYRedCrescent food assistance containing rice, whea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #ICRC_sy

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