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Sourcing quality goods from India to all parts of the world
As part of its mission, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) procures items to meet the needs of people affected by conflicts around the world.| Article -
Myanmar: Accountability to Affected People
For us, accountability means ensuring our efforts to help are relevant, timely, and do no harm.| Video -
Afghanistan: Millions affected by growing humanitarian needs
The ICRC continues to provide life-saving and life-changing support to hundred of thousands of people across the country to help them face the increasingly difficult situation they are on a daily basis.| Article -
Azerbaijan: A repaired kindergarten becomes an oasis of normalcy
The kindergarten in Tezekend village of Aghdam district is an oasis of normalcy and hope for the community. Not very long ago though, it was among the many buildings that were damaged when hostilities escalated in autumn of 2020.| Article -
Afghanistan: A health-care system on life support
To prevent the collapse of the secondary-health-care system, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launched the Hospital Resilience Project (HRP), supporting 33 hospitals with a total capacity of 7,057 beds and reaching about 26 million| Article -
Afghanistan: 113,500 newborn Afghan babies, but how will they survive?
A statement delivered by Christine Cipolla, ICRC's regional director for Asia and the Pacific.| Statement -
Myanmar: Enduring support for growing humanitarian needs
In June this year, the ICRC returned to Mindat in Chin State to provide support to communities displaced by conflict. This was our fifth trip to the area since clashes escalated more than a year ago.| Article -
Myanmar: A tailor tells her story
Things started to change after Moe Moe Nwe received a prosthetic leg from an orthopaedic workshop supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Sittwe.| Article -
Breaking the silence on sexual and gender-based violence in the Pacific
It is imperative that victims/survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are offered support when they seek health care and speak about their experiences.In line with its humanitarian mandate, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) re| Article -
Israel and the Occupied Territories - Political solutions needed to halt cycles of violence
Each new round of violence in the Gaza Strip and Israel sparks a crisis of hope, as the fighting revives and creates new trauma on both sides.| Statement -
Update on the humanitarian situation in Colombia
The humanitarian consequences of the armed conflicts and violence afflicting Colombia continue to worsen alarmingly.| Article -
Papua New Guinea: ICRC Activities 2021
Missing persons: the right to knowIn situations of armed conflicts and other situations affected by violence, countless families suffer great anguish when loved ones go missing.| Article -
Kuwait Red Crescent Society visits ICRC projects in Cox’s Bazar
Headed by Maha Al Barjas, Secretary General of the KRCS and Vice-President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for the Asia-Pacific region, the KRCS team visited the emergency department of the hospital and conduct| Article -
ICRC Activities in Syria: January to June 2022
During the first half of 2022, millions of Syrians have benefited from different vital services provided by the ICRC in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) across the country.These services are meant to respond to the most pressing n| Report -
Autonomous weapons: The ICRC calls on states to take steps towards treaty negotiations
ICRC statement following the final 2022 session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) from 25 to 29 July.| Statement -
ICRC-MRCS Social Media Contest 2022
Held for the first time, this contest aims to help enhance MRCS' communications capacities, online engagement and brand awareness including that of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement.| Article