Section, primarily intended for the media, containing all ICRC news releases and operational bulletins from the field. The ICRC’s presence in conflict areas and insight into problems faced by victims makes it the essential reference on the humanitarian consequences of war. 1-7-2005
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19-11-2008 News release Central African Republic: aid for 20,000 displaced people
Bangui (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has just completed a distribution of basic necessities to nearly 20,000 people in villages between Bouzoum and Paoua and between Talley and Billacaré, in the Paoua sub-prefecture of north-western Central African Republic.(News) |
19-11-2008 News release ICRC discusses new crossing-point arrangements with government and LTTE
Colombo (ICRC) – As a neutral intermediary enjoying the trust of both the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is currently facilitating their talks to find suitable arrangements for a crossing point between the territories controlled by each of the two parties.(News) |
14-11-2008 News release Rwanda: Training course for prison service managers
Kigali (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has just finished teaching 24 senior managers of the Rwandan prison service about international standards relating to the treatment and conditions of detention of people deprived of their freedom.(News) |
14-11-2008 News release Guinea Bissau: Aid for isolated north-west
Dakar (ICRC) – Working with the Red Cross Society of Guinea-Bissau, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a series of aid distributions near São Domingos in the north-west of the country.(News) |
12-11-2008 News release Gaza: Civilians collectively pay the price of closure
Jerusalem (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the ongoing closure of the Gaza Strip to commercial goods and humanitarian aid. Since 5 November, shipments of food, medicine and gas have been completely suspended.(News) |
11-11-2008 News release Paraguay: Help for farmers detained in Ciudad del Este
Buenos Aires (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross today delivered aid to 70 farmers held at Ciudad del Este regional prison in Alto Paraná department. Another 700 inmates also benefited from the delivery.(News) |
11-11-2008 News release Chad: War-surgery seminar in N'Djamena
N'Djamena (ICRC) – The Chad delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) organized a seminar on war surgery in N'Djamena on 4 and 5 November.(News) |
7-11-2008 News release Nigeria: Call for action to tackle arms proliferation in West Africa
Abuja (ICRC) – Government experts responsible for applying international treaties in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have called on member States that have yet to ratify the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and other Related Materials (SALW) to do so and to work more closely with civil society in ensuring its full implementation.(News) |
30-10-2008 News release Geneva: Military officers learn to turn rules of war into concrete actions
Geneva (ICRC) – Seeking to turn theory into practice, senior military officers from around the world will gather in Geneva on 3 November to consider concrete steps that can be taken to integrate the rules of armed conflict into training and procedures, thereby limiting the effects of war on civilians and their property.(News) |
29-10-2008 TV news footage ICRC TV News Footage Iraq: millions at risk from contaminated water
After decades of war and neglect, Iraq's health care, water and sanitation services are in a dire state, failing to meet the basic needs of a large part of the population. Despite an improvement in security in some areas, basic services in many places are inadequate.(News) |
29-10-2008 News release Pakistan: Severe earthquakes leave thousands homeless
Geneva/Islamabad (ICRC) – Thousands of people have been made homeless and hundreds have been killed or injured by three earthquakes, which rocked southwest Pakistan before daybreak on Wednesday.(News) |
29-10-2008 News release Iraq: millions at risk from polluted water
Geneva/Baghdad (ICRC) – Inadequate health care and water and sanitation services in much of Iraq are putting millions of people at risk of disease, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today.(News) |
27-10-2008 News release Spain: ICRC president hands over Spanish Civil War documents
Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, is in Spain today to officially hand over to the government a set of copies of documents from the organization's archives relating to its activities during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).(News) |
24-10-2008 Operational update Emergency assistance for the displaced in Darfur
Thousands of civilians were displaced by communal fighting over cattle and other livestock in the Muhajiryya locality of southern Darfur in early October. The ICRC distributed relief items to the displaced as well as dealing with emergencies elsewhere in Sudan, including floods in Aweil, in the south.(News) |
23-10-2008 News release Rwanda: Safe drinking water for 22,000 people
Kigali (ICRC) – Around 22,000 people now have better access to safe drinking water thanks to a water-supply project which has just been completed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Kabarondo, Ruramira and Kigarama, in Rwanda's Eastern Province.(News) |
23-10-2008 News release Gaza: Disruption of medical services hampers treatment
Geneva/Jerusalem (ICRC) – The situation of several hundred seriously ill patients in the Gaza Strip who cannot obtain urgently needed medical treatment is extremely worrying, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today.(News) |
22-10-2008 Operational update Georgia/South Ossetia: remote areas lack food, proper access to health care
In an effort to assess the overall humanitarian situation in rural South Ossetia and to provide assistance, the ICRC recently visited the Akhalgori/Leningori area, mostly populated by ethnic Georgians, and Ossetian villages such as Khetagurovo, Avnevi, Khodabula and Didi Tskhiata.(News) |
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