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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

May 2024

  • People hold flags and placards in front of the ICRC building in Gaza City: children and men of varied ages are seen, with some women in the background, holding Palestinian flags and hand-written signs. One boy is wearing a keffiyeh scarf around his neck. It is bright and sunny, and the people are standing on paving and sand in front of a gateway and stone wall.

    Red Cross and Foreign Office to discuss plan to visit Palestinians in Israeli detention

    ICRC is denied access to prisoners in what is said to be breach of Geneva conventions but critics say UK plan may weaken rule of law

April 2024

  • A screenshot of a deleted image showing Russian Red Cross staff posing with Kalashnikov rifles at a military event for children.

    Red Cross decides against suspending Russian branch despite links to Kremlin war machine

    RRC appears to defy neutrality principle, as Ukrainian officials criticise ‘weak response’ and accuse Red Cross of being advocate for Russian aggression

March 2024

  • A screenshot of a deleted image showing Russian Red Cross staff posing with Kalashnikov rifles at a military event for children.

    Red Cross urged to act over Russian branch’s links to Kremlin war machine

  • A composite photograph of three young men, one holding a little girl

    Rights and freedom
    ‘They can’t grieve’: families in limbo as Channel boat victims left unidentified

January 2024

  • People hold photos of hostages on 13 January in Tel Aviv, Israel, during a rally to mark 100 days of captivity by Hamas in Gaza.

    Hamas says two Israeli hostages have been killed by Israeli airstrikes

  • Lorenzo Marsili

    War gave us the Red Cross. Now climate disaster means we need a Green Cross too

    Lorenzo Marsili

October 2023

  • The maternity ward at al-Shifa hospital

    Red Cross witnesses ‘utter chaos’ at Gaza hospitals as supplies run critically low

    Experts say medical centres rapidly running out of fuel and medical supplies as injured and displaced people seek refuge

June 2023

  • Ukrainian Red Cross volunteers help an elderly woman

    Zelenskiy steps up criticism of International Red Cross over inaction at Kakhovka dam

    Ukrainian president’s remarks echo previous comments about international bodies’ failure to intervene more decisively

May 2023

  • Mohamed Ahmed and Mohamed Jamal

    Sudan medical volunteers detained after being seized from ambulance

    Mohamed Ahmed and Mohamed Jamal went missing last week while working to reopen a hospital in Bahri

April 2023

  • Freed prisoners at Sana'a airport

    Red Cross announces exchange of nearly 900 prisoners in Yemen war

    International Committee of the Red Cross organises swap between Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels as ceasefire talks continue

July 2022

  • People flee fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels near Kibumba, north of Goma.

    ‘It shouldn’t be happening again’: M23 rebels return to wreak havoc in DRC

    Ten years ago, M23 rebels forced thousands from their homes in North Kivu until they were defeated. But now they are back

June 2022

  • María Rodríguez rests on the bed in her new home.

    Gangsters killed Maria’s sister in Honduras. A note on the door told her she was next …

    Maria and her family were given help to start a new life in safety, but she is just one of a quarter of a million people in the country internally displaced by violence

March 2022

  • A local resident stands next to the grave of his friend killed in Mariupol

    Ukraine in fresh effort to evacuate Mariupol after Red Cross warnings

    Humanitarian charity says thousands of civilian lives in danger if they remain in the besieged port city

  • Cinema of Ukraine: artists reflect on modern history, culture and people

    The Guardian is celebrating Ukrainian cinema with a specially curated selection of documentaries. Presented in collaboration with the Kyiv-based Docudays UA film festival, these award-winning movies offer  insight into the modern history of the country, its culture and its people. 

    Having lived through the Maidan revolution, a pivotal moment in Ukrainian history, art has become a way for the radical cabaret act Dakh Daughters to reflect on the 2014 uprising while facing the harsh realities of today with wisdom and hope, as seen in Roses.Film-Cabaret, directed by Irena Stetsenko.  

    In This Rain Will Never Stop, directed by Alina Gorlova, we meet 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman, who escaped Syria with his family and found refuge in Ukraine, his mother’s homeland. Shot in striking black and white, the film is a sophisticated vision of war zones and the scars they leave.

    School #3, directed by Yelizaveta Smith and Georg Genoux, invites pupils in Donbas to talk about the things that matter to them

  • A truck with emergency aid in Chernivtsi, western Ukraine.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We need safe access’: aid groups in Ukraine struggle amid warning 7m could be displaced

    As refugees crossing borders are met with a huge relief effort, aid workers are struggling to get supplies to the millions in need in the country

February 2022

  • People collect water from a salt water well during a prolonged drought in Mochesa, Kenya. The Red Cross said 1.7 billion people already face food and water shortages.

    Climate emergency a ‘national security’ concern, says Red Cross

    On eve of alarming IPCC report, organisation warns governments to treat crisis on a par with war and peace

January 2022

  • A mother and child queue for food in the Tigray region, Ethiopia.

    ‘We just sleep and hope we don’t perish’: 2m in Tigray in urgent need of food – UN

  • Red Cross workers

    Hacking attack on Red Cross exposes data of 515,000 vulnerable people

November 2021

  • The Changi Quilt British Red Cross Museum

    Florence Nightingale’s lamp and coded wartime quilt star in new Red Cross museum

    Previously unseen treasures from the charity’s history on the frontline are going on permanent display at its London HQ

June 2021

  • A health worker wearing PPE walks past a mural showing medical staff outside Clinic Ajwa in Shah Alam, Malaysia.

    Rights and freedom
    Spat at, abused, attacked: healthcare staff face rising violence during Covid

    Data shows increased danger for those on the frontline in the pandemic, with misinformation, scarce vaccines and fragile health systems blamed
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