Ukraine crisis: ICRC activities up to end of August
… Red Cross to provide food, medical care and restoring family links services; helped the Ukrainian Red Cross …
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The International Committee of the Red Cross in the First World War
… for that Agency, whose role was to restore links between members of families separated by …
Ethiopia: Facts and Figures - January to June 2014
… to help them restore their livelihoods, 2014. RESTORING FAMILY LINKS The ICRC has a global Family Network …
Eritrea: Facts and Figures 2013
… groups benefit from financial support and family-links services The ICRC has continued to … vulnerable Ethiopian civilians and restore family links through Red Cross Message (RCM) …
Mali: Tackling scabies outbreaks in prisons
… arrested in connection with the conflict. Restoring family links The ICRC offers inmates the possibility …
Colombia: Humanitarian situation and ICRC activities
… ARMED GROUPS 97,000 detainees visited 1,000 family visits supported 64 detention … mutual support to help alleviate their grief. Restoring family links ICRC teams, in collaboration with the …
Colombia: Mother and son reunited after 15 years
… an ICRC delegate and asked him to trace his family. The painstaking search was successful … Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) restored links between 83 families split up by the …
Children and armed conflict & violence against children
… or armed groups and endeavours to restore family links. Much of the suffering imposed on …
ICRC policy documents
… and exposure to violence – detention visits, restoring family links, etc.; specific considerations related …
Strengthening Compliance with IHL – Preparatory discussion, December 2013
… beneficial flow-on effects (e.g. building links between stakeholders for other forms of … activities may first and foremost be aimed at restoring an attitude of respect of IHL in the … for reasons of resource constraints. Links with the International Conferences of …
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