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Seventeen countries have agreed on rules to ensure that private military companies operating in war zones do not break international humanitarian law or abuse human rights, a senior Swiss diplomat...
Soaring food prices could trigger a global catastrophe, with the world's poor unable to feed their families, human rights activists said on Monday.
The warning came as world leaders arrived...
JOHANNESBURG – FIFA expresses its concern about the deadly attacks on foreigners in South Africa but says the violence will not have an effect on the 2010...
Millions of people caught up in armed conflicts will be pinched hard by the global food crisis, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross which vowed on Tuesday to sustain aid to 52...
Five years after the United States led an invasion of Iraq, millions of people there are still deprived of clean water and medical care, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appealed on Thursday for a record 1.09 billion Swiss francs to help save lives next year in Iraq, Sudan and other hotspots.
The humanitarian...
All sides in the fighting in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province are killing and raping civilians and looting on a scale not seen in years, the International Committee of the...
Opening remarks by Ms Sue van der Merwe, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the Occasion of the 7th Annual International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Seminar on International...