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03-09-2015 Sudan: ICRC facilitates handover of 18 people in Darfur
03-09-2015 Nepal: Nine years into the peace process, relatives still in the dark about the fate of their missing members
02-09-2015 Syria: Water used as weapon of war
02-09-2015 Yemen: Two ICRC staff members killed in attack
01-09-2015 Philippines: Strengthening protection for victims of armed conflict through legislation
31-08-2015 Global initiative seeks local solutions to global problems
30-08-2015 Lebanon: Time is running out
28-08-2015 Families of the missing live with uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones
28-08-2015 Yemen: Situation deteriorating in Taiz
27-08-2015 Syria: Emergency medical supplies delivered following heavy fighting in north-east

Migration can mean loss of connection to family members. Our website can help.

Migration can mean loss of connection to family members. Our website can help.

Iraq: Health care services in dire need of support

Iraq: Health care services in dire need of support

Cambodia: Locally-run factory helps restore the mobility of thousands

Cambodia: Locally-run factory helps restore the mobility of thousands

First Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions

First Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Why is the @ICRC holding seminars on the laws of war with Hamas? #OurPrinciplesInAction ow.ly/RY9v5 #IHL

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#Migration can mean separation and loss of connection to family. Our website can help bit.ly/1Uzt28l pic.twitter.com/Ix7qeOPMBu

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Our focus for helping #migrants #refugees and their families: bit.ly/1JUjm01 pic.twitter.com/qRbmYIngnx

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#Migration can mean loss of connection to family members. Our #FamilyLinks website can help: ow.ly/RY8pE pic.twitter.com/XHYmTzLX8j

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Our focus for helping #migrants, #refugees and their families: ow.ly/RY7LQ pic.twitter.com/nSuDXzA87W

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RT @ICRC_dc: Migrant & refugee crisis: How the Red Cross & Red Crescent is responding intercrossblog.icrc.org/blog/migrant-r… w/@ICRC

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People are driven from their homes because international humanitarian law is ignored and violated #IHL #refugees #migrants

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With #Syria the biggest source of #refugee crisis in Europe, will international community finally find a political solution to end the war?

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RT @DStillhartICRC: #Migrants are amongst the most vulnerable in modern times. Proud to support #Mexican Red Cross addressing their needs pic.twitter.com/TtUZVc2kWs

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We need to put an end for all time to the suffering and casualties caused by cluster munitions icrc.org/en/document/fi…

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Help us #reshapeaid. #Vote for the best submissions on our #innovation #ideation platform redinnovation.org #redinnovation

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#ICRC David Maizlish on Applicability of #Laws - #National, #IHRL, #IHL - & operational challenges @UNPeacekeeping pic.twitter.com/cfHAkpGU7o

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RT @DStillhartICRC: In #Guatemala today assisting exhumation of a mother, father and two daughters killed during civil war 33 years ago. pic.twitter.com/nHNIR16E3g

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#First Regional Seminar on Contemporary Challenges in #IHL related to @UNPeacekeeping begins #ManekshawCentre #CUNPK pic.twitter.com/I8iq77cmdv

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How do we meet the health-care needs of people affected by armed #conflict & why do we do it? #HCiD icrc.org/eng/resources/…

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RT @DStillhartICRC: Unbearable stories of violence, death and extortion from exhausted #migrants taking a rest in a shelter in Nogales.

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RT @DStillhartICRC: Crossed the border today from Tucson Arizona to #Nogales in #Mexico to get first hand impression on humanitarian consequences of #migration.

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RT @ICRC: People are driven from their homes because international humanitarian law is ignored and violated. #IHL #Refugees #Migrants

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ICRC & @MyanmarRedCross are distributing food & essential items to 60,000 people impacted by floods in Rakhine state pic.twitter.com/VUXrjD5OtV

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RT @PMaurerICRC: I'm glad to see European people & media are paying attention to suffering. Countless more tragedies inside #Africa #Asia #Americas #refugees

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DRC rape trials reportage wins Humanitarian Visa d’Or photo prize (10)

Cambodia: Locally-run factory helps restore the mobility of thousands

Cambodia: Locally-run factory helps restore the mobility of thousands

Syria: Water as a weapon of war

Syria: Water as a weapon of war

Iraq: Health care services in dire need of support

Iraq: Health care services in dire need of support

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Rwanda / Burundi: Torn apart by violence - Burundian families reunited

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150 years of humanitarian action: Children in war

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Protecting health care - a matter of Life & Death

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Bringing clarity and comfort to families of missing persons

Battling typhus: The ICRC in Poland, 1921

Battling typhus: The ICRC in Poland, 1921

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Eleven Women Facing War

Eleven Women Facing War

This photo book is the culmination of a monumental endeavour that began in 2001, when the ICRC commissioned photographer Nick Danziger to document through films and photos women's experiences of conflict around the world.

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