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Nicaragua expels Red Cross representative without giving reason

Nicaragua has expelled a top representative from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) without giving any reasoning, the humanitarian group said on Friday.

Reuters · Mar 25, 2022

Violence to spur more migration from Mexico, Central America -Red Cross

Waves of migration through Mexico and Central America, and people who go missing will increase in 2022 due to high levels of violence in the region, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.

Reuters · Mar 24, 2022

Ukraine latest updates: NATO will ‘respond’ to chemical weapons

Ukraine-Russia news from March 24: US President Joe Biden warns Russia against using chemical weapons in Ukraine.

Al Jazeera · Mar 23, 2022

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Colombia's violence causes more displacement, explosives' victims - ICRC

Surging violence in Colombia caused the number of people internally displaced, forced to restrict their movements and injured or killed by explosives to hit the highest in five years in 2021, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Mar 23, 2022

Red Cross boss to raise "pressing" issues on Ukraine with Russia- agency

The head of the International Committee of Red Cross is in Moscow for two-day talks with senior Russian officials including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and will raise "pressing humanitarian issues" in Ukraine, the agency said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Mar 23, 2022

Russia's Lavrov to meet Red Cross chief in Moscow for Ukraine discussions

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, in Moscow in Thursday, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Mar 23, 2022

Red Cross chief travelling to Moscow for meetings on Ukraine

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, is on his way to Moscow for talks on the Ukraine conflict, an ICRC spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Reuters · Mar 22, 2022

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ICRC president arrives in Kyiv for five-day mission

Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has arrived in Kyiv on a planned five-day visit to Ukraine to insist on greater humanitarian access and protection of civilians, the organisation said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Mar 16, 2022

ICRC warns besieged Ukrainian city Mariupol faces 'worst-case scenario' as it pushes for humanitarian action

Mariupol is facing extreme shortages of basic necessities and communication lines have all but gone silent. Friends and family of residents trapped by Russian shelling paint a picture of what is happening on the ground.

ABC News · Mar 14, 2022

ICRC warns Ukraine’s Mariupol faces ‘worst-case scenario’

Mariupol city council says more than 2,000 people have been killed since the city was besieged by Russian forces.

Al Jazeera · Mar 13, 2022

As it happened: Zelenskiy urges Nato to implement no-fly zone

This live blog has now closed. Follow the latest updates on the Russia-Ukraine war here.

The Guardian - AU · Mar 13, 2022

Latest Ukraine updates: Russian strikes destroy Vinnytsia airport

Ukraine-Russia news from March 6: Missile strikes have destroyed the international airport in Vinnytsia.

Al Jazeera · Mar 5, 2022

Evacuations from Mariupol, Volnovakha won't start on Saturday -ICRC

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it understood that evacuations of civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha in Ukraine would not start on Saturday because of the conflict following Russia's invasion.

Reuters · Mar 5, 2022

Red Cross chief 'cautiously positive' about possible prisoner visits in Ukraine

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross told Reuters on Tuesday that he was "cautiously positive" the ICRC would gain access to Ukrainian and Russian prisoners held in the context of the conflict.

Reuters · Mar 1, 2022

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Reuters · Mar 1, 2022

Red Cross seeks funds for Ukraine aid, access to detainees

Red Cross agencies appealed on Tuesday for 250 million Swiss francs ($273 million) to provide food, water and shelter to millions of people in Ukraine where the humanitarian situation is "deteriorating rapidly" and to those who have fled abroad.

Bangkok Post · Feb 27, 2022

ICRC head's statement on Ukraine

This new phase of the fighting in Ukraine has sent an ominous chill down my spine. The intensification and spread of the conflict risk a scale of death and destruction that are frightening to contemplate, given the immense military capacities involved.

Reuters · Feb 24, 2022

U.N., Red Cross call for protecting civilians, vital structures in Ukraine

Civilians and critical infrastructure such as water and power systems in Ukraine must be protected from attacks in line with the rules of war, United Nations and Red Cross officials said on Thursday as aid agencies struggled to assess damage from Russia's attack.

Reuters · Feb 24, 2022

Red Cross urges all sides in Ukraine war to protect civilians and essential services

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday urged all sides in the Ukraine conflict to respect international humanitarian law, protect civilians and essential services such as water and power supplies.

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The New Daily · Feb 11, 2022

Cindy Wockner: If only there were more great hearts and spirits in this world like ‘Detta’ Gleeson

Afghanistan, Lebanon, Africa, Libya – this was Australian nurse Bernadette 'Detta' Gleeson's turf with the Red Cross. The world is poorer for her passing.

Reuters · Feb 7, 2022

ICRC, UN agency invited to discuss Yemen detention centre attack

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has invited the International Committee of the Red Cross and a U.N. agency to investigate allegations by the Iran-aligned Houthi group that coalition forces carried out a fatal attack on a detention centre last month, state media reported on Monday.

Reuters · Feb 2, 2022

Red Cross flags dire conditions in east Ukraine as tensions flare anew with Russia

Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Ukraine are living in dire conditions, with poor access to basic services and under constant threat from shelling and landmines, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, amid escalating tensions between Kyiv and Moscow.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 22, 2022

Arab Coalition Says Reports About Attack on Saada Detention Center Are False

The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen has said that media reports about it targeting a detention center in Yemen’s Saada province are false. "The Coalition will inform the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen (OCHA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the…

The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2022

Red Cross: Hack exposes data on 515,000 vulnerable people

The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal, confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people

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