Syria: Field hospital opens for displaced people in Al Hol camp
… of several SARC mobile health units and restoring family links for Syrians and foreigners). 465,000 …
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Central America Annual Report 2019
… Thousands of people remain without news of family members who are missing as a result of … from the IML were trained under the Restoring Family Links were trained by consultants in the …
45,000 Minutes of Hope are not Enough
… thanks to the free phone calls offered by our Restoring Family Links programme. Mexican Red Cross volunteers …
Mexico Annual Report 2019
… alleviate their and we will consolidate the Restoring Family Links programme uncertainty is psychologically …
Hellenic Parliament, ICRC address humanitarian needs of missing migrants, families
… the dead migrants “we want to restore the links in a chain that have been broken …
Rules in War – A Thing of the Past?
… in detention, the missing, and it prioritizes restoring family links. IHL also stresses the importance of …
View of the ICRC on interpretation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
… realizing their social right to establish a family.24 2.1.3. How to establish a causal … is to assist survivors as well as their family members in coping both with the effects … remediation does not include measures towards restoring environmental health that go beyond …
Snapshots: Photos that really matter
… photos, more than 600 people found their family members after war tore them apart. This … explains Cellou Mamadou Bah, who runs the Restoring Family Links programme for the International …
Operational update on Cyclone Idai: Destruction and anguish as thousands remain homeless
… to set up systems to reconnect separated family members. This includes registering … ones and let them know they are safe. The Restoring Family Links website continues to receive cases of …
Cyclone Idai: Our response in Mozambique
… are living in constant anxiety of whether family members are alive or not. Photo: … of the people we are assisting through our Restoring Family Links programme. Photo: Amilton Neves/Nuku …
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