2017

• Red Cross issues warning over severe winter weather in Europe
• Europe: Extreme winter weather
• Afghanistan: Abducted ICRC staff member released
• The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement deplores the deaths of civilians and 6 Nigerian Red Cross aid workers
• Afghanistan: Six ICRC staff members killed and two unaccounted for in attack
• Yemen: Urgent plea to warring parties to spare civilians
• Afghanistan: An appeal for the safe and unconditional release of ICRC staff
• Libyan Red Crescent recovers 74 bodies in northern Libya
• Iraq: the ICRC steps up its humanitarian response around Mosul
• Iraq: ICRC strongly condemns use of chemical weapons around Mosul
• SOMALIA: MALNUTRITION HITS RECORD HIGHS AS DROUGHT PERSISTS
• Thousands in urgent need of assistance in cyclone-hit Madagascar
• Red Cross steps up emergency water and sanitation for thousands more South Sudanese refugees in Uganda as influx continues
• Battle for Mosul causes massive destruction of everyday life
• “Massive scaling up urgently needed to tackle hunger crisis” says ICRC’s Director of Operations
• Yemen: As situation deteriorates, ICRC doubles its aid budget
• Yemen: Access to detainees a humanitarian must
• Yemen: Cholera Outbreak Affects Thousands
• Somalia: Big influx at nutritional feeding centres for children
• Statement on Syria by ICRC President Peter Maurer
• Israel/Occupied Territories: Palestinian detainees on hunger strike at risk of irreversible health consequences
• Philippines: Hundreds of civilians threatened by fighting in Marawi City
• Falkland/Malvinas Islands: Head of ICRC team arrives ahead of project to identify Argentine soldiers buried on the Islands
• Iraq, Syria and Yemen: Five times more civilians die in city offensives, new report finds
• Yemen: Health system at breaking point as cholera spreads at unprecedented rate
• World Refugee Day 2017
• Falkland/Malvinas Islands: Forensic identification of Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery starts today
• Iraq: Wounded civilians trapped in Mosul must be evacuated, treated
• Statement by Robert Mardini, Regional Director for the Near and Middle East at the ICRC
• Casualties from unexploded ordnance on the rise in Mosul
• Yemen: ICRC president visits country, decries "needless suffering"
• Statement on Yemen attributable to ICRC President Peter Maurer
• IFRC warns of serious health risks as extreme heatwave sweeps across Europe
• Falkland/Malvinas Islands:
• Yemen: Airstrikes against civilians are an alarming trend
• Central African Republic: International Red Cross Movement strongly condemns killing of Red Cross volunteers
• Philippines: Aid delivered to 7,000 evacuees cut off by Marawi fighting
• South Sudan: Number of hungry, displaced at staggering levels, ICRC president says during visit
• Libya: Hospitals suffering from shortages; public infrastructure collapsing
• International Day of the Disappeared:
• Afghanistan: Two abducted ICRC staff members released
• The world’s first “Humanitarian Impact Bond” launched to transform financing of aid in conflict-hit countries
• Afghanistan: Physiotherapist who helps amputee patients shot and killed
• Failure to manage arms trade responsibly is putting a dirt cheap price on the lives of civilians
• South Sudan: ICRC condemns killing of staff member
• Myanmar: ICRC scales up aid for people fleeing violence
• ICRC appeals to fund critical operation in Myanmar and Bangladesh
• Yemen: ICRC deplores death of civilians in Taiz
• The UN General Assembly must focus on the most vulnerable people caught up in conflict
• ICRC President Peter Maurer calls for focus on issues of detention and missing in Iraq