Liberia: Surviving Ebola with care and cash
The International Committee of the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières are working together to ensure that Ebola patients get the food they need in order to fight the virus and build immunity. At …
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Yemen: Sheikh Husein bin Shu’aib calls for cooperation with ICRC
The series "My experience with the ICRC in Yemen" reflects a range of Muslim traditions, giving us the views of Islamic scholars in Yemen on the question of international humanitarian law and Islam, …
ICRC sets record operational budget for 2015
The ICRC has put together a record operational budget for 2015 of over 1.3 billion Swiss francs, up 25% on last year's figure. Presenting the budget to the international donor community in Geneva, …
Kuwait: Improving health care in prisons
26-11-2014 Kuwait (ICRC) – At a three-day regional seminar in Kuwait that ended today, prison authorities and health professionals came together to discuss mechanisms to improve health care in places …
ICRC presents record budget for 2015 to meet vastly expanding needs
26-11-2014 Geneva (ICRC) – For 2015, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking its donors for 1.6 billion Swiss francs (1.26 billion euros, or 1.68 billion US dollars) to help …
Media debate their reporting of conflict and disaster
It's not the media's job to look after the sick and wounded, but they play a vital role in times of war and disaster. By shining a spotlight on the misery, the media stops the world from looking the …
Iraq: Two million people still displaced as winter arrives
With the armed conflict in Iraq intensifying and expanding, the number of displaced Iraqis is estimated to have reached 2 million. Winter is arriving, and it will become very cold in some areas, …
Responding to sexual violence in conflict: How can we do better?
Widespread sexual violence unfortunately remains a largely invisible phenomenon due to cultural taboos, feelings of shame or fear of retaliation. Its prevalence and its consequences are thus vastly …
Internment in armed conflict: Basic rules and challenges
Deprivation of liberty - detention - is a common and lawful occurrence in armed conflict that is governed by a large number of provisions of international humanitarian law (IHL). Like other bodies of …
Regional delegation in India: Lest we forget!
Recently, we watched the people of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) grapple with one of the worst floods in over half a century. The floodwaters have receded but they have left in their wake proof of the …
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