Damaged sewerage systems are placing 50,000 people at serious risk in the Gazan town of Beit Hanoun. "We have to repair basic infrastructure as quickly as possible," explains ICRC water engineer Sara …
18-12-2014 In Yemen, where the Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated on 13 December, festivities go silently, perhaps even unnoticed. However, all over the country, there is reason to …
18-12-2014 Cairo (ICRC) – Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Egyptian Red Crescent, in cooperation with Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population, held a conference …
Thierry, a prosthetic/orthotic technician from the Akanin’ny Marary centre in Ambositra, supported by the ICRC’s Special Fund for the Disabled (SFD), prepares a prosthesis for a patient. The …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in South Sudan since the beginning of the emergency in mid-December 2013 to the end of November 2014. FACTS & FIGURES DECEMBER 2014 ICRC IN SOUTH SUDAN It is now …
Legislation for common-law States seeking to implement their obligations under the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its 1954 and 1999 …
Monrovia Central Prison, Liberia. Everyone who enters Monrovia Central Prison has to submit to the mandatory temperature check and wash their hands with chlorinated water. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / T. …
Since Typhoon Hagupit struck the Philippines just over a week ago, the Philippine Red Cross has had three rapid response teams on the ground to assess the impact on the worst affected areas, …
Tabasco, Tenosique, Mexico, 9 February 2012. Migrants from Central America wait for a train to leave. Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Central America risk their lives every year in search of a …
17-12-2014 Around the world, thousands of migrants are behind bars. Having already suffered many hardships on perilous journeys, migrants should not be subjected to administrative detention except as …
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