Relief News Updates
Iraq: Accompaniment and Walking Beside Families of the Missing
Azerbaijan: Facts and figures from over 30 years of humanitarian engagement
Syria: For families of the missing, it is answers, not time, that will heal the pain
ICRC president: Mass evacuation of Gaza City unfeasible and incomprehensible
Standing in the face of absence: “The past ten years have been the most painful of my life. Yet I still endure”
Balancing risks and opportunities: New technologies and the search for missing people
Syria: ICRC calls for sustained and collective efforts to address the issue of the missing
Number of missing people registered with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement up nearly 70% in five years
DRC: Silence, a slow killer
Sri Lanka: Ambiguous Loss
Myanmar: Restoring hope to families of the missing
Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi: January to June 2025 Facts & Figures
International Day of the Disappeared: Conflict in Sudan drives missing persons cases in Africa
South Sudan: The pain, memories and hope
Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC appalled by strike on Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza
Arms Trade Treaty: A framework that saves lives and preserves humanity in armed conflict
Philippines: “The Book of Memories” book and exhibit launch
Sudan: January to June 2025 Facts & Figures
Update from the Red Cross Field Hospital, Rafah: 15-Month Operational Summary
Philippines: ICRC president highlights need to make international humanitarian law a political priority to support peace and stability
Jordan: International Day of the Disappeared - Supporting Syrian families of missing persons
ICRC response in Southern Syria: Operational update
Israel and the occupied territories: Intensification of hostilities threatens to worsen catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza
South Sudan: January to June 2025 Facts & Figures
Joint statement: DIRCO and ICRC call for stronger political commitment to uphold IHL across Africa
Stop putting targets on aid workers’ backs
To protect humanitarians is to protect communities: World Humanitarian Day 2025
ICRC voices: Contending with Syria’s deadly legacy of war
“A grave betrayal of humanity": Abhorrent attacks on aid workers must stop
ICRC president: “If states invest in defence, they must also budget for international humanitarian law”
The International Day Of the Disappeared: Memory Boxes - Gardens of Memories
Afghanistan: summary of operational facts and figures, January to June 2025
ICRC president: "International humanitarian law only as strong as leaders’ will to uphold it"
How the ICRC helps sustain life in Armenia’s borderlands: A day with Harutyun Harutyunyan
Philippines: States in Asia Pacific region commit to greater support for rules of war during regional conference
Iran: Sixth training course to manage health in emergencies held in Tehran
Afghanistan: protection of vulnerable communities through cash-for-work projects
Georgia / South Ossetia: Home is where hope dwells
ICRC president: The next 76 years of the Geneva Conventions will be shaped by the choices leaders make today
Ethiopia: January to June 2025 Facts & Figures
Colombia: decent detention conditions are still a long way off
Colombia - Calls to action
Colombia: the impact of armed conflicts on children
Classification of the armed conflicts in Colombia
Colombia - Victims/survivors of sexual violence: Invisibility and a lack of protection
Health care: another casualty of the armed conflict - Colombia
Disappearance: the pain of not knowing - Colombia
- Iran: Second Round of Financial Assistance to Support the Iranian Red Crescent Society’s Efforts to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Iran: ICRC supports the vaccination of Afghan migrants in Iran through IRCS
Thailand and Cambodia: ICRC welcomes ceasefire and stands ready to conduct further detainee visits
- Iran: Humanitarian Negotiation Workshop in Tehran
Philippines: Committed to serve humanity
Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC calls for an agreement between the parties to enable humanitarian action in Gaza
The weaponization of outer space is not inevitable
Displaced in your homeland: Echoes from Lake Chad’s unending conflict
- Israel and the Occupied Territories: ICRC appalled by harrowing videos of Israeli hostages in Gaza
- Israel and the Occupied Territories: ICRC mourns killing of Palestine Red Crescent Society staff member in Gaza
Thailand: Asia-Pacific Symposium discusses IHL and new technologies of warfare
Mozambique: ICRC increases its humanitarian response in Mocimboa da Praia
Ethiopia: “Many pregnant women have died due to lack of medicine and health services”
Colombia: 2025 set to be the decade’s worst year in humanitarian terms
Haiti: Displaced people face violence, hardship and uncertainty
ICRC Writing Competition VI: Upholding Humanity
Chad: Behind bars, detainees learn how to rebuild their lives
Influencing behavioural change for better prevention of sexual violence in armed conflict
Twenty Years of ICRC in China: From Origins to Vision
80 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A call to eliminate nuclear weapons
Syria: ICRC gains access to Sweida, calls for sustained humanitarian response
Global Initiative on IHL: Engagement in First Phase of Consultations
Luxembourg: ICRC Director-General’s visit reflects the long-standing strategic partnership with Luxembourg
Iraq: Photography Award 2025
Afghanistan: Futsal for empowering children with disabilities
Hiroshima 80 years on: The humanitarian imperative to eliminate nuclear weapons
Special Appeal 2025 – Emergency Lifeline
Poland: ICRC Brings Together National Societies and IFRC to Boost Emergency Preparedness in Europe
Poland: The 2nd Regional Conference of European National IHL Committees (NIHLC) in Warsaw
Poland: Sub-regional Restoring Family Links Conference hosted by the Polish Red Cross
Hungary: 8 May Celebrations
Romania: 1st High-level IHL Conference organized by the Romanian Red Cross with ICRC’s support
Nigeria: “We go to bed hungry sometimes for two to three days”
Nigeria: Hunger deepens as farmers in the conflict-affected northeast struggle to survive
Ethiopia: A personal account on helping affected communities in Oromia
More than 30 years after Iran-Iraq war, families still hope to find out the fate of their missing loved ones
- Iran: Robert Mardini, Director General of the ICRC on the IRCS’s 100th anniversary
DRC: The ICRC stands ready to support detainee releases between conflict parties
Syria: ICRC warns of deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Sweida and southern Syria
ICRC voices: Life and Death in the Red Cross Field Hospital
The ICRC and China: cooperation in humanitarian forensics
ICRC mourns colleague killed in Gaza
ICRC accompanies Iranian Red Crescent Society to locations affected by hostilities
- Humanitarian Exemptions in Domestic Counterterrorism Legislation - Factsheet
Yemen: A new medical clinic opens at Sa’ada New Remand Prison to improve health and living conditions of detainees
Israel and the occupied territories: Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah receives unprecedented influx of fatalities
Philippines: Understanding challenges in detention through Health Information System
Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC outraged by attack that wounded ICRC staff, PRCS volunteer during Gaza rescue mission
Srebrenica: 30 Years of Remembrance and Search for Missing Family Members Continues