Iraq: People and life return to Baashiqa
Asmahan, Maya, and Julie are three women who belong to the same family. They had been displaced together from their home and returned at the beginning of 2017. They speak about years they spent in …
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Sri Lanka: Asia Pacific convenes for better correctional environment
People deprived of their liberty have to be treated humanely and with dignity at all times. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) supports prison authorities at different levels to …
Q&A on the ICRC's new handbook on IHL
International Humanitarian Law: A Comprehensive Introduction is a handbook that aims to promote and strengthen knowledge of international humanitarian law (IHL) among academics, weapon-bearers, …
Falkland/Malvinas Islands: Giving back the dead their names
Thirty-six years after the end of the conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom, an ICRC forensic team went to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands to collect DNA samples from the remains of 122 …
Red Cross and Novo Nordisk announce ground-breaking partnership to tackle chronic care in humanitarian crises
18-04-2018 Many more people are today affected by chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) than by communicable diseases. This is not reflected in resources for health in general and much less in …
Capturing and exploring humanity through creative cinema in Bosnia-Herzegovina
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended over 20 years ago. Many would assume that generations of young people born afterwards are not affected and less interested in the physical and emotional scars …
China: Reporters get trained in international humanitarian law, first aid
19-04-2018 Beijing (ICRC) – The first-ever workshop on international humanitarian law (IHL) and the protection of journalists was organized in Beijing on 19 April 2018, with over 20 participants from …
China: First-ever media workshop focuses on protection of journalists in emergency and first aid
Senior journalists from Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua), China Global Television Network (CGTN) and other media are invited to share their thoughts and experience as war journalists, including reporting …
Yemen: ICRC staff member shot and killed in Taiz
21-04-2018 Geneva / Sana'a (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross is deeply saddened by the fatal shooting today of one of its staff members in Yemen. Hanna Lahoud, a Lebanese …
International humanitarian law course for practitioners in Paris 2018 (in French)
Course description Organized by the ICRC and the French Red Cross, this immersive five-day course in international humanitarian law (IHL) is open to humanitarian practitioners who wish to become …
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