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President Peter Maurer UNGA 2021: International Humanitarian Law - Enhancing Monitoring, Improving Compliance
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,This year I have visited ICRC operations in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, Syria, and Yemen, among others.Unique contexts but the same equation: when wars are fought in violation of the law,| Statement -
“My diploma has lost all value”: Libya’s young graduates face an uncertain future
Ahmad, a petroleum engineering graduate, had planned for everything; except that the conflict in his country would drag on for a decade. “I was not very focused on what was going on outside the Faculty walls.| Article -
ICRC Vice President Gilles Carbonnier on cluster munition at the 2nd Review Conference of the Convention
ICRC Vice President Gilles Carbonnier on cluster munition at the 2nd Review Conference of the Convention| Statement -
Southeast Asia: Update on ensuring the continuity and resumption of access to education in crisis situations
Ensuring the continuity and resumption of education in crisis situations was at the core of discussion during a webinar co-organized by ASEAN Foundation, ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR) and the ICRC.| Article -
Requests for information about people held during Spanish Civil War or Second World War: Quarterly limit reached
Regarding a request for information about someone held as a prisoner of war or civilian internee during the Spanish Civil War or the Second World War.The maximum number of requests that our staff can deal with has been reached (Learn more).| Article -
Requests for information about people held during Spanish Civil War or Second World War
Regarding a request for information about someone held as a prisoner of war or civilian internee during the Spanish Civil War or the Second World War.In accordance with the ICRC's regulations on access to its archives, the Agency Archives may have in| Article -
Report: Family Needs Assessment
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) undertook a comprehensive Family Needs Assessment (FNA) among the families of missing Zimbabwean migrants as part of the Missing and Deceased Migrants programme.| Report -
Searching for missing persons in connection with 1990s and August 2008 conflicts
The discussions included an update on the progress made since the last meeting of the Coordination Mechanism in October 2020 and further efforts needed to clarify the fate of the 122 persons who remain missing in relation to the armed conflicts.For t| News release -
ICRC Director positions open for application
Announcement of six new Director positions now open for application.| Article -
In Nigeria, an accompaniment program helps relatives of missing persons
A major impact of the 12-year-old armed conflict in north-east Nigeria is the record number of missing persons.| Article -
World First Aid Day: Pakistan first-aider says no one too young to save a life
Pakistan Red Crescent volunteer Ikram works with school students on first-aid training because he believes no one is too young to save a life.| Article -
ICRC forensic team identifies the remains of six Argentine soldiers buried in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
The Second Humanitarian Project Plan (HPP 2) involved the exhumation of human remains belonging to a number of individuals located within one grave known as C.1.10 at Darwin cemetery.| News release -
DR Congo: When war surgeons save civilians
It was a morning like any other, and Aline was on her way to Uvira to buy fish to resell at the market in Mulongwe. But on that fateful day, the bus she was riding was attacked by armed men. "They started shooting at us," she said.| Article -
Remembering Diomède Nzobambona, a caring mentor, leader and innovator
While in the field, Diomède Nzobambona had a ritual. He liked to walk long hours every weekend, sometimes under a blazing sun. In Mali, he was called "the man of the march on the seawall from Mopti to Sévaré," recalls Jean-Nicolas Marti.| Article -
President Peter Maurer addresses the High-level Ministerial Meeting on the Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan
Secretary-General Guterres, Excellencies,I have just returned from Afghanistan, where I met with the Taliban leadership and visited ICRC's humanitarian operations, which have continued largely uninterrupted.Across the country, the magnitude of need i| Statement -
Chittagong Hill Tracts: Cleaners in 31 health facilities get trained to control COVID-19 spread
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), has been carrying out an intensive infection prevention and control (IPC) programme in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).The first phas| Article -
Safe amid storms: Repairing bamboo houses and improving water access in Marawi
Bahay kubo or native bamboo houses have sheltered hundreds of people displaced by the armed conflict in 2017 in Marawi City, southern Philippines.They were built under the Bahay Pag-asa or House of Hope Project—a joint government and private sector i| Article -
“If your animals die, you die with them” – Somali herders defenceless against the climate crisis
In our latest piece exploring the link between climate change and conflict, we focus on Somalia and a way of life under threat.| Article