Communities and internally displaced persons are emotionally and physically bearing the brunt of decades of instability
The fledgling Red Cross Military Identification Programme aims to collaborate with non-state and state military groups to establish DNA profiling of combatants before deployment
South Africa has largely escaped the fate of several European countries and the United States, but that doesn’t mean we can’t prepare, just in case
Feeding schemes inundated with requests to assist during Covid-19 lockdown
Humanitarian assistance doesn’t always work right away. That doesn’t mean we should stop trying.
70% of all illness deaths are due to easily treatable malaria, acute watery diarrhoea and respiratory infections in Udier Village
South Sudan’s five-year-long civil war has left possibly tens of thousands of people without limbs — a toll that may never be accurately established
The Red Cross’s Peter Maurer told the Mail & Guardian his immediate concern with the withdrawal from the ICC was one of perception.
As Damascus sees its heaviest fighting since Syria’s conflict began, reports suggest Al-Assad’s regime is not alone in committing human rights abuses.
The beheaded body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross has been found dumped by the roadside.
Al-Shabaab’s ban on one of the few agencies still operating in Somalia could deprive hundreds of thousands of people of critical food aid.
Streams of civilians have fled Sirte in Libya while the Red Cross warns of a medical emergency and battles continue.
Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has called for early elections in his first speech since returning to Yemen.
Fears were growing on Monday for up to 2,5-million people affected by Pakistan’s worst floods in 80 years amid outbreaks of disease.
Zimbabwe’s prisons will get a much-needed injection of help from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Thousands of Sri Lankans under fire waded across a lagoon to escape the island’s war zone, where the military has surrounded Tiger rebels.
Just how bad conditions have become within Zimbabwe’s prison walls is only beginning to come to light.
The Philippines imposed a state of emergency on Tuesday on Jolo island and troops prepared for a possible rescue of three Red Cross workers.
The Philippines said it was impossible to comply with the demand of kidnappers holding three Red Cross workers to empty five towns of security forces.
About 2 000 people have fled Sri Lanka’s shrinking war zone over the past two days as troops fight towards a final showdown with Tiger rebels.
The Algerian interior minister on Monday denied allegations of human rights abuses contained in a United States State Department report.
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/ 24 February 2009
The US decision to send more troops to Afghanistan will mean little to the people of northern Sang-i-Khel village whose fight is against hunger.
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/ 18 February 2009
At least 50 civilians were killed and many more wounded on Wednesday in air attacks in north-eastern Sri Lanka, a pro-rebel website reported.
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/ 13 February 2009
A Sri Lankan peace advocate was kidnapped on Friday in the southern Philippines, police and military officials said.
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/ 11 February 2009
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers on Wednesday denied gunning down civilians streaming out of the country’s war zone.
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/ 3 February 2009
Patients who could walk fled one of the last functioning hospitals in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone on Tuesday after it was hit by artillery shells.
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/ 29 January 2009
International rights groups pressed for urgent action to save up to 250 000 civilians trapped in northern Sri Lanka.
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/ 21 January 2009
Congolese troops on Wednesday denied access to peacekeepers and journalists to a border region as they joined forces with Rwanda to hunt Hutu rebels.
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/ 16 January 2009
Thousands have fled Sri Lanka’s northern war zone in recent days, crossing the front lines amid fierce fighting, the military said on Friday.
Relief workers found four starving children sitting next to their dead mothers and other corpses in a house in a part of Gaza City bombed by Israel.
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/ 30 October 2008
Thousands of villagers in south-west Pakistan waited for aid on Thursday after an earthquake that destroyed homes and killed at least 215 people.
Hezbollah handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross on Wednesday to be exchanged for Lebanese prisoners held by Israel.