ACTIVITY REPORT - IRAQ 2023
ENGLISH Present in Iraq since the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) focuses on addressing the consequences of armed conflicts and other situations of …
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Yemen: Annual Activity Report 2021
In 2022, Yemen will hit the 8-year mark since the onset of the devastating conflict that has since affected millions of people across the country. Lives have been lost, families shattered and …
Venezuela: Supporting the most violence-affected population in 2019
In 2019 Venezuela experienced an increase in social tensions, and its economic and social situation deteriorated, giving rise to a shortage of essential goods, health care, and other essential …
How to use social media to engage with people affected by crisis
11-10-2017 ICRC, IFRC, and UNOCHA release a brief guide for humanitarians. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies …
Ethiopia Bulletin, January - December 2023
… workers with the tools they need to do their jobs effectively, the ICRC helps to improve …
Moveability Liquidation
… 2017. • P&O in Togo have difficulty finding jobs after graduation. Our engagement in the … of the UNCRPD, and workshops on creating jobs for PwDs and international cooperation in … with our support, left the SEOP to seek jobs abroad – in part, because of the …
Pakistan: New law to prevent violence against health-care workers, facilities and patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
… Ashfaq Yusufzai, “Specialist Doctors Quit Jobs to Join LRH”, Dawn News (9 June 2017) KP … compulsory to apply for in-house hospital jobs. Noti cations are legally binding. v. The …
We help people affected by armed conflict
… in the infrastructure that supports people’s jobs and livelihoods, such as functioning …
Humanitarian challenges 2017: ICRC Colombia Report
… have any roads or aqueduct here, there are no jobs, there is no work. This all creates … safer place and, therefore, to abandon their jobs and their roots. As a result, these …
Venezuela in 2020: humanitarian work to help those hardest hit by violence and the pandemic
Throughout 2020, the social and economic crisis in Venezuela continued to take its toll on the most vulnerable part of the population, who had to not only endure a context riddled with violence and a …
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