Due to constant shelling, hundreds of people are forced to leave their homes in search of a safe place.

ICRC teams equipped compact accommodation places for 110 families from the border areas of the Sumy region, in northeast #Ukraine .

We will continue to provide aid.

This week in #Kuwait , we hosted a workshop on preliminary investigations in the search for #missing persons. With technical & decision-makers from Iraq & Kuwait, led by #forensic experts, we enhanced search methodologies —a vital step in clarifying the fate of missing persons.

Myriam Favier, ICRC’s chief in #Goma , said the crisis in eastern Congo was not gaining the attention it deserved.

« This conflict is all but forgotten. And yet the magnitude of the human suffering it has created is hard to grasp. »

By Andres Schipani

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On this World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, we honor our staff and volunteers' service, bravery, and sacrifice.

We will continue to work together to keep humanity alive.

Read more in our joint statement 👉🏽 ms.spr.ly/6015YVHyT

#KeepingHumanityAlive

📍 Gaza

ICRC calls for protection of civilians while hoping for an agreement amidst evacuations, military operations and negotiations.

Our news release 👇

We work to reconnect families separated by conflict.

ICRC trained 23 Ethiopian Red Cross Society volunteers on registering separated & missing persons, & on how to provide information to families in Metema, Kumer and Allemwach camps in West and North Gondar, #Amhara Region.

Do you know how many #conflicts are there in the world right now?

#GC75

Wounded patients need emergency medical treatment to survive and recover.

ICRC delivered lifesaving medicines and medical consumables to Bike General Hospital in Sitti Zone of #Somali Regional State and Mohammed Aklie Memorial General Hospital in #Afar Region.

#Ethiopia

#Evenwarshaverules
#GenevaConventions

Impressed by South Sudan Red Cross & ICRC teams helping people connect with their loved ones, assist with basic needs & care for the wounded.

The influx of displaced people is creating significant challenges for local communities. More aid must reach the residents as well as those uprooted.

'If it is quiet, it is scary, because we are used to constant attacks,' says Victoriia from Orikhiv, #Zaporizhia region.

Civilians constantly live in fear due to the ongoing international armed conflict.

To support them, the ICRC provides household supplies & cash assistance.

📍Sudan

Humanitarian workers are #NotATarget .

News release: icrc.org/en/document/su…

Largest ever meeting on autonomous weapons systems, convened by MFA Austria.
140 states, 900 delegates.
Humanity at the crossroads, let us not miss the right turn.
We cannot delegate decisions of life and death over human beings to algorithms.
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#AWS #IHL

“We were sleeping on leaves.”

“I was living in a cave.”

ICRC provided Essential household items and cash assistance to 6000 displaced people in Fatsi and Kil’at, Gulo Mekeda, Eastern #Tigray .

This will improve their living conditions.

1/6 IHL has a long history of regulating the respect for and protection of the dead in armed conflicts.
Respecting the dignity of the dead is a fundamental tenet of #IHL .
Read more on the fundamental rules 👇
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📍 Yemen.

Through displacement, a severe lack of healthcare and insufficient food, millions of Yemenis are still paying the price of years of #conflict .

Sexual violence and other gendered harm is reduced when a culture of restraint and compliance with the law is promoted across armed forces’ doctrine, education, training and disciplinary systems.

Our statement on #CRSV by Laetitia Courtois ICRC at #UNSC #WPS ▶️ icrc.org/en/unsc-wps-cr…

We are concerned about the recent violence in the West Bank.

Our statement below

The continuous unchanged resort to explosive weapons in populated areas epitomizes our global, collective failure to protect civilians in armed conflicts, putting them at constant risk of indiscriminate warfare.
Military practices need to change. #EWIPA
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