Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | yesterday
Quick, someone call Richard Goldstone. The IDF reports (and documents) a 900% increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza in 2009 as compared with 2008. The aid is supplied by various international organizations - the International Red Cross, UNRWA, WFP - and is imported into the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom Crossing near the Egyptian border."We are investing major resources to enable the flow of
Buckdog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"According to our information, the likelihood is that all the Afghans we handed over were tortured," said Colvin, the former political director of the provincial reconstruction team in Kandahar city. "For interrogators in Kandahar, it was standard operating procedure." He also said that when the Red Cross wanted to look into the treatment of detainees turned over by the Canadian...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Delegates from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are due to meet in Nairobi from Wednesday to address today’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. It's the first time ever that the world's largest humanitarian network will hold a Movement-wide meeting of its leaders in Africa. The 17th session of the General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent...
France24 (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Climate change is the leading cause of new challenges for the humanitarian community, a survey of G20 governments commissioned by the Red Cross revealed Tuesday. As the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement gathered in Nairobi for their first ever global meeting in Africa, the "Believe in Humanity" survey warned that the humanitarian landscape was changing fast.
CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
GENEVA - The international Red Cross on Thursday warned that the majority of the world's 26 million displaced people were often neglected because they found refuge with local communities instead of in camps. "The focus on camps means that what happens to the majority of displaced people -- those who seek refuge with host communities -- is often ignored," International Committee of the Red...
D.C. Confidential (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Modest: Portraits and Stories of Women in the Middle East : Alexander Boulet, Photographer : Geneva, CH Currently, there is a temporary exhibit of photos by the late photojournalist Alexandra Boulat currently on display at the Museum of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent titled Modestes: Portraits et Histoires de Femmes au Moyen-Orient . It features photos of women in the Muslim world and is...
Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Paul Holton got the message loud and clear, he said, when the Pentagon sent him a “cease and desist” letter about his efforts to help Iraqi children.“They said it was unlawful to get and receive items that weren’t for yourself, and that it was unlawful to solicit,” Holton said.The letter came during his tour in Iraq with the Utah National Guard...
D.C. Confidential (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Petrified : MICR : Geneva, CH This sculpture, by Zurich artist Carl Bucher, is called The Petrified and "denounces the violation of human rights and appeals for tolerance." It stands in the courtyard of the Museum of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent, which is next to the Red Cross/Red Crescent Headquarters in Geneva. Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 11/09
D.C. Confidential (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Swags and Cascades : Geneva, CH Sunday, on my way to the International Red Cross Museum, I passed this cobweb. Pretty cool, eh?! Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 11/09
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Every expat can relate to this story. Gerhard Brand now lives quietly in west Clare after having spent most of his career working in prisons in South Africa, including Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was famously incarcerated. A former soldier and warden, he was the last governor of the Robben Island prison and helped oversee its transformation to the museum it now is. Since then he has run a...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
International Red Cross should prevent the U.S crimes in the world / In spite of lack of democracy standards in Saudi Arabia but due to the close relationship with the U.S. there is no pressure on it / Red Cross play role to release four Iranian captured in the Qods Occupier Regime prison2009/10/30
Rachel Joyce's BlogSpot (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
We all remember the beginning of the end of communism and the cold war - when Margaret Thatcher met Gorbachov and said that "this is a man we can do business with". On Monday I met a man who may be that person for the Tamils of Sri Lanka. I have blogged before about my concerns about human rights in Sri Lanka. As I write this, there are still over 250,000 Tamil men, women, children and babies...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Geneva - Argentinian football star Lionel Messi joined Thursday a campaign to support the humanitarian work of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The Our world. Your move campaign, launched in May, aims to highlight humanitarian...
Glenn Greenwald (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded yesterday to the U.N. Report finding Israel guilty of war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity by pointing out that Hamas committed war crimes -- a fact nobody disputes but which doesn't exonerate Israel in any way. Netanyahu argued, accurately, that Hamas committed four types of war crimes, one of which is this: "they've been holding...
Caymanian Compass (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
GENEVA (AP) The international Red Cross said Monday that it has been finding hunger and other problems from the economic crisis appearing in the European Union, traditionally a source of money for other parts of the world.
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