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In Latin America, here's how the ICRC is improving the humanitarian situation through their response to COVID-19

The failure to plan and prepare for mass casualties risks people being buried in mass graves, with few records and little understanding of who died and where the body was taken. The suffering of people not knowing where their loved ones are buried could be devastating.

The ICRC fosters income generation and enhanced nutrition in communities affected by violence, and works towards providing essential services such as water. We also deliver first aid training and provide psychosocial support to these communities. Our local ICRC staff visit prisoners in order to ensure that they are treated with dignity and foster implementation of IHL and IHRL

The president of the ICRC, Peter Maurer, today urged governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to support the negotiations on a new treaty to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.

Quito (ICRC) – Senior law enforcement officials from 13 Latin American countries are meeting today in Ecuador to address the challenges that arise in enforcing the law while upholding human rights and complying with international standards and rules. "In recent years we have seen a widespread lack of security in Latin America, with a high crime rate and number of victims,"

The photo exhibition "80 años de acción humanitaria de la Cruz Roja" (80 years of Red Cross humanitarian action) features images of the ICRC's earliest work in Latin America, during the Chaco War (1932-1935). The photos show the everyday activities of Paraguayan and Bolivian prisoners of war, the wounded being attended to on the battlefield and the work of Paraguayan Red Cross

Valeriana Granse Franco beams with happiness as she wields a hoe in her strong, sun-beaten hands. The 75-year-old widow shares six hectares of land with her son, her daughter-in-law and her three grandchildren in Tacuatí Poty, a small village in the rural department of San Pedro.

The ICRC’s regional delegation for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay has been fulfilling its humanitarian mission since the 1970s.

Geneva (ICRC) – All over the world, women and girls living behind bars often face particular hardship in terms of protection, privacy and access to basic services, including health care. Consequences can be felt within their families and communities, well beyond prison walls.