International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

New app 'Enter the Room', produced by the International Committee of the Red Cross, invites users to live a unique experience, with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of health care in conflict zones. 'Enter the Room' was conceived of and developed by French agency Nedd. It uses the 'portal effect' which ...

International Red Cross says it halted aid mission to Syria's rebel-held eastern Ghouta region because of violence. By The Associated Press. BEIRUT — Mar 6, 2018, 3:32 AM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. 0 Shares. Email. International Red Cross says it halted aid mission to Syria's rebel-held eastern Ghouta region because of ...

Hundreds of women who had recently returned to their villages sat on rocks at the bottom of the mountain as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) made hundreds of piles of essential household items to be distributed to returnees and ...

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More than 20 employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross have left the organisation for sexual misconduct since 2015, the humanitarian ... The ICRC director general, Yves Daccord, said 21 staff members were either dismissed or resigned for paying for sexual services in the last three years.

In 2017, the ICRC continued to help the most vulnerable people residing along the contact line in Donbas. We provided food, water, hygiene products and other basic household items, maintained the heating/cooling points and provided the first aid modules for the checkpoints, distributed thousands of tons ...

In 2017, the ICRC continued to help the most vulnerable people residing along the contact line in Donbas. We provided food, water, hygiene products and other basic household items, maintained the heating/cooling points and provided the first aid modules for the checkpoints, distributed thousands of tons ...

The ICRC Guidelines for screening potential private donors and partners are based on existing institutional documents, namely the Ethical Principles Guiding ICRC's Partnerships with the Private Sector and the Movement Policy for Corporate Sector Partnerships. This document clarifies how the ICRC's ...

Jaberi Ansari also touched upon the policies Iran has adopted to help settle the regional crises as well as the extensive efforts made by Iran in humanitarian areas. He said Iran is fully prepared to work with international organizations and the ICRC to lessen the ongoing humanitarian disaster caused by ...

In Fallujah, I was touched by seeing people with amputated limbs learning to walk again at the ICRC-supported physical rehabilitation centre. However, I also met an all-female family in a camp in Anbarwho told me that they cannot return home. Their male relatives are all either detained or missing and they ...

President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer speaks as Katharina Ritz, the ICRC Head of Delegation in Iraq, looks on during ... "With regard to families of foreign fighters: ICRC has had various but increasingly cooperative accesses to those families," ICRC President Peter Maurer ...

“All staff are contractually bound by the ICRC's Code of Conduct, which explicitly forbids the purchase of sexual services. This ban, in place since 2006, applies worldwide and at all times, including in locations where prostitution is legal, as the ICRC believes that staff paying for sex is incompatible with the ...

Is the International Committee of the Red Cross serious about the issue of sexual misconduct by its personnel? That is the question being asked by current and former ICRC colleagues who know as well as anyone that our organization, like others in the humanitarian sector, must confront this behaviour.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says 21 of its staff members resigned or were dismissed for paying for sexual services over the past three years. Another two staff members suspected of sexual misconduct didn't have their contracts renewed. ICRC staff members are banned from paying for ...

Relief supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are loaded into a plane on December 30, 2008 at Geneva Airport as more injured people flooded in on the fourth day of Israeli forces offensive on the Gaza Strip. At least 363 Palestinians, including 39 children have been killed and ...