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Following the earthquake in Baluchistan women in the damaged villages have been secluded as required by local customs. Now, as the ICRC's Jessica Barry explains, their voices are rarely heard except by aid workers and medical personnel.
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Bangui (CICR) – En République centrafricaine, le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) vient de distribuer des biens de première nécessité à près de 20 000 personnes vivant dans les villages qui se trouvent le long des axes Bouzoum-Paoua et Talley-Billacaré,
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Katharina Ritz, the ICRC's head of mission for the occupied Palestinian territories, talks about the humanitarian situation and the organization's efforts to respond to the most urgent needs.
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The security situation having improved in Iraq recently, more people have access to health services and clean water. However too many Iraqis are still compelled to drink contaminated water and live in unhygienic conditions.
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Colombo (ICRC) – As a neutral intermediary enjoying the trust of both the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is currently facilitating their talks to find suitable arrangements for a crossing point between the territories controlled by each of the two parties.
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Bangui (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has just completed a distribution of basic necessities to nearly 20,000 people in villages between Bouzoum and Paoua and between Talley and Billacaré,
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Thousands of people continue to flee fighting in North Kivu. These newly-displaced people and the tens of thousands already displaced have absolutely nothing and are in a desperate situation. Working with the Red Cross Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
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ICRC assistance teams, working together with the Pakistan Red Crescent, have delivered nearly 1,200 winterized tents to victims of the 29 October earthquake in Balochistan. They are now in a race against time to deliver more durable shelter kits before winter arrives up in the mountains.
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Dakar (ICRC) – Working with the Red Cross Society of Guinea-Bissau, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a series of aid distributions near São Domingos in the north-west of the country.
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Tens of thousands of civilians from the Vanni remain displaced after fleeing fighting between government security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is again expanding its emergency humanitarian relief work to respond to the deepening crisis in Somalia. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis face life-threatening food shortages owing to the escalating armed conflict and the effects of the severe drought in central and southern areas.
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demobilization and reintegration, and that the MILF refuses to disarm prior to a final peace agreement, long-term displacement is likely.
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