Seoul: 17 countries join regional IHL conference
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hosted “2022 North-East, South-East Asia and the Pacific Regional Conference on IHL: Bringing IHL Home – a Focus on Weapons, Means and Methods of …
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Panama: Mothers' Stories; photo exhibition
13-12-2022 The Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for Panama and the Caribbean, together with the Panamanian Red Cross (PRC), the International Federation of …
Haiti: Haitians trapped by violence, cholera, and lack of food
13-12-2022 Port-au-Prince (ICRC) – Amid increased high-levels of armed violence in Haiti that is exacerbating the health system’s ability to respond to an outbreak of cholera, the International …
Philippines: A far-flung community finally gets its own health clinic
The day Mariel Havana has long been waiting for is finally here. After years of struggle, her village, Kasapa II in Agusan del Sur, Philippines, now has its own clinic where residents can seek …
Annual review 2021: ICRC regional delegation for the gulf cooperation council countries
Each year the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Gulf Cooperation Countries conducts activities across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. The ICRC works to promote and ensure …
Libya: ICRC inaugurates dormitory annexed to Benghazi Physical Rehabilitation Centre
On the 14th of December 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formally opened a newly constructed dormitory annexed to the Physical Rehabilitation Centre of Benghazi, east of …
Georgia: Remains of 11 people identified in connection with the 1992–1993 armed conflict
15-12-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – The family members of 11 people who were missing in connection with the armed conflict of 1992–1993 in Abkhazia were informed that their loved ones were positively …
Medico-Legal Systems and Forensic Services: An Assessment Guide
A medico-legal system and forensic services assessment serves to contextualize not only the ICRC’s humanitarian forensic action on behalf of the separated, the missing and the deceased, but also the …
Counting the Dead: An ICRC report on the migrants dying on Europe’s borders
More than 20,000 migrants are believed to have gone missing between 2014 and 2019 while trying to cross to Europe. An ICRC report entitled Counting the Dead reveals that only 13 per cent of their …
Fifth report on the EU guidelines on promoting compliance with IHL is launched.
For over a decade, the EU has made respect for International Humanitarian Law (IHL) a cornerstone of its external relations approach and developed a set of guidelines (EU Guidelines on Promoting …
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