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Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers have been working around the clock every day since the beginning of the events 8 months ago. In the past, they used to carry out simple activities like transporting sick people. Today, they are faced with highly demanding tasks in dangerous areas. What they do is making a difference between life and death.
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Determined to reframe the international debate on nuclear weapons, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. At the 2011 Council of Delegates, 187 national societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) united behind a resolution, as Peter Herby, Head of ICRC's Arms Unit explains.
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During the last four years, the world has felt the devastating impact of natural disasters, from the Japanese tsunami to the Haiti earthquake, to floods and famine in Africa, and more. Meanwhile, long-running conflicts in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan have affected millions of people, while new conflict has ripped across the Arab world. The challenges that Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers face in helping the victims…
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The cartoonist Patrick Chappatte travelled to Lebanon in February 2009, two and a half years after the war between Israel and Lebanon. In a cartoon documentary he describes how the population of the affected area lives with the constant threat of death or disfigurement through unexploded cluster munitions. Millions of these bomblets were scattered during the conflict and many failed to detonate. Thus, the 2006 war continues every time someone steps…
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Four decades of conflict in southern Colombia have made health care a rare commodity on the Rio Caguan, a remote tributary of the Amazon. Villagers must travel 500 kilometers or more by boat to the nearest hospital. Abdi Ismail, an ICRC delegate, explains his work taking mobile health clinics along the river to thousands of villagers who would otherwise be cut off from medical care.
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