Hong Kong/Beijing (ICRC)-- The ICRC and Hong Kong Red Cross (HKRC) jointly organized the 19th Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition for the Asia-Pacific Region through a …
Five years ago, Honorine was raped. Now, in Sange, South Kivu Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she has her hands full with work at a hospital, her restaurant and her grocery store. …
Joint ICRC–Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) emergency relief assistance was carried out island-wide with the support of local authorities to improve the daily food consumption of the most …
Humanitarian challenges These are our calls to action in relation to the issues that most concern us in the country. Tackling COVID-19 We urge the Colombian government to include marginalized and …
The year 2020 was particularly difficult for health-care workers. Not only did they have to deal with a public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but also with the escalation of …
Za’atari is 5.3 square kilometers and lies some 10 km east of the Mafraq Governorate of Jordan. It houses a refugee camp, established in July 2012, to accommodate those fleeing from the armed …
Many communities experienced greater levels of fear as their exposure to risk increased. Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the humanitarian consequences of armed conflict worsened, as …
Our reports confirm that all armed groups continue to use disappearances to cultivate a climate of fear among civilians. In 2020, we registered one missing person every three days in Colombia. From …
Armed conflict and violence have reverberated throughout this pandemic and there is hard evidence to prove it. In 2020, we reported 389 victims of explosive hazards, the highest number in the last …
A reduction in the humanitarian consequences of armed conflict and violence would have been a positive start to 2021. Sadly, the opposite was true. There are at least five ongoing non-international …
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