February 1, 2025 News By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Red Cross and Hamas have condemned Israel’s treatment of recently released Palestinian prisoners, who reported severe beatings, death threats, and inhumane conditions […]
January 26, 2025 middleeastmonitor.com The Red Cross convoy carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives in Ramallah, West Bank, as part of the second round of the prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and […]
Listen to the articleToggle language selectorShare From Ukraine to the Middle East, through Sudan and Ethiopia, international humanitarian law is under severe strain. The Geneva Conventions celebrate their 75th anniversary […]
By Bassam Masoud and Janis Laizans November 25, 2023 0 seconds of 0 secondsVolume 0% GAZA/ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Hamas fighters released 24 hostages on Friday during the first day of […]
Festering food crisis worries Red Cross; Guterres terms floods ‘unnatural’ Dawn Report Published September 14, 2022 ISLAMABAD: International agencies have sounded the alarm over the acute food crisis expected to hit Pakistan […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross has increased its efforts in Afghanistan while other organisations were also stepping up, ICRC’s Director General Robert Mardini said. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/jj9ky […]
Little more than a month after the departure of American troops from Afghanistan, people in the country are struggling to pay for basic necessities as foreign cash dries up. Can […]
BY ERALP YARAR ISTANBUL POLITICS AUG 19, 2020 Xavier Castellanos, the deputy general secretary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), gave an exclusive interview with […]
By AFP – Aug 09,2020 – JORDAN TIMES This migrant walks on the Roya river on Wednesday. The Red Cross centre is dismantled since a few days (AFP photo) VENTIMIGLIA, […]
By Andrea Tognina Aug 12, 2019 – 15:46 (Keystone) Seventy years ago, Switzerland achieved a modest diplomatic coup. Notwithstanding the relative isolation in which it found itself after the Second […]
This content was published on August 4, 2018 Yemeni government forces take position in the port town of Hodeida, July 30, 2018. (Keystone) The Yemeni government and rebel opposition Houthis […]
By Christoph Titz German retirement homes are having trouble finding geriatric nurses. To resolve the problem, they’re looking for help from abroad, recently expanding that search to Africa. Is it […]
Greg Taylor @ObserverGreg News Reporter Atta-ur-Rahman Khalid with his bike AN IMAM is to cycle 500 miles to raise money for the British Red Cross. Atta-ur-Rahman Khalid, of the Ahmadiyya […]
By Imogen Foulkes This content was published on June 25, 2018 It is key for humanitarian organisations to be able to talk to ‘non-state’ armed groups to try to […]
By Thomas Stephens This content was published on May 8, 2018 An ICRC aid convoy in Daraya, Syria, in 2016 (swissinfo.ch) On May 8, 1948, the first Red Cross Day […]
This content was published on May 2, 2018 Displaced children play at the Atamah camp, at the Syrian-Turkish border in Idlib province, Syria, on January 12, 2018 (Keystone) Owing to better […]
By Kathrin Ammann This content was published on December 11, 2017 The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer inspects the scene of the […]
CULTURAL HERITAGE By Thomas Stephens OCT 26, 2016 – 11:00 This undated photo released on August 25, 2015, on a social media site used by Islamic State militants shows the destruction of the 2,000-year-old Syrian Temple of Baalshamin. The Arabic at bottom reads: “The moment of detonation of the pagan […]
By Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net MAY 23, 2016 – 17:00 An ICRC humanitarian convoy delivering aid to the residents of a suburb of Damascus held by rebels and under siege from government forces since 2013 (Reuters) The Geneva Conventions form the heart of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), which is supposed to […]
By Frédéric Burnand swissinfo.ch DEC 29, 2014 – 11:00 In the suburbs of Aleppo on November 17, 2014: The ICRC is the only foreign aid organisation working in the contested area. (Reuters) Like many multinational organisations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will implement a restructuring plan next […]