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The international Red Cross has made its first visit to Afghan prisoners held by the Taliban in the northwest of the country, the organization said Tuesday.
The Red Cross says they need $32 million to feed 220,000 Zimbabweans who cannot access hard currency in the collapsed economy.
Teamsters who work at American Red Cross blood services facilities in Philadelphia are on strike.
Sarah Palin is spending Thanksgiving with relatives in Washington state before resuming book signing over the weekend.
A global network of aid agencies on Wednesday called on governments to do more to reduce the impact natural disasters caused by climate change will have on poor countries.
A global network of aid agencies says world powers consider climate change the most significant challenge to humanitarian work.
Rose Percy has a long history with the American Red Cross. Complete with an extensive wardrobe and her own Tiffany jewelry, this 23-inch wax doll was first sold for $1,200 back in 1864 to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission — the precursor to one of best-known U.S. charities.
Camps for people uprooted by natural disasters or armed conflict inside their own country can stir envy among locals and become a recruiting ground for armed groups, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Thursday.
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has called for the "immediate and unconditional release" of two staff members kidnapped in the African countries of Chad and Darfur.
Officials say a German working for the Red Cross has been shot by men on a motorcycle in Indonesia's Aceh province.
Gunmen kidnapped a French staff member working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Sudan's western Darfur region on Thursday, the group said.
NFL players of Samoan background got an update from the U.S. government and the Red Cross Friday on recovery efforts in the tsunami-stricken Samoas.
Guinea's leader on Monday dismissed the French foreign minister's call for international intervention in the West African country after soldiers there opened fire on demonstrators last week, killing at least 57.
The international Red Cross says it has set up video links allowing Guantanamo Bay inmates to talk to their families and friends face-to-face.
The Red Cross says a search team in Costa Rica has resumed the hunt for a missing U.S. hiker after police spotted what may be a body floating in a crater lagoon.
The United Nations and the Red Cross warned Tuesday about an escalating conflict in northern Yemen between government forces and Shiite rebels that has already driven 120,000 people from their homes and is spreading to other provinces.
Four South Korean fishermen, whom Pyongyang detained for a month after they accidentally entered North Korean waters, returned home Saturday.
The U.S. military has quietly tightened its detention policy to require that the International Committee of the Red Cross be notified promptly of terror suspects held at a special camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan, a senior military officer said Saturday.
The Geneva Conventions on warfare have survived a difficult phase since the 2001 attacks on the United States followed by the U.S.-led war on terror, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday.
A look at major kidnappings in the southern Philippines attributed to the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf and other armed groups. Abu Sayyaf gunmen on Sunday freed the last of three international Red Cross workers they kidnapped last Jan. 15 on southern Jolo Island.
The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, the worst in Africa in more than 15 years, is slowing but is still expected to reach 100,000 cases this week, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
A suicide car bomber killed seven people and wounded 21 others Wednesday outside a U.S. military base in the same part of eastern Afghanistan where militants stormed government buildings a day earlier, police said.
Villagers dug dirt graves Wednesday to bury what the international Red Cross said were dozens of Afghans — including women and children — killed in American bombing runs. A former Afghan government official said up to 120 people may have died.
Calling civilian deaths unacceptable, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he would talk with President Barack Obama on Wednesday about allegations that dozens of civilians died in a U.S. bombing run in western Afghanistan, the president's office said.
BBC News - In pictures: Italian doctor in KabulA story in pictures. An Italian doctor, Dr.Alberto Cairo, bravely treats the many Afghan amputees in Kabul through the International Red Cross. Most of the patients have lost their families through decades of war.
Feds met with group over Afghan abuse in 2006OTTAWA — Three federal cabinet ministers and a senior government official met the head of the International Red Cross in the fall of 2006 as the humantarian organization tried to focus Canada's attention on alleged abuses in Afghan prisons, The Canadian Press has learned.
Heavily-censored Afghan abuse memos released - thestar.comOTTAWA – The military police watchdog agency agreed Wednesday to release censored versions of Richard Colvin's emailed warnings on Afghan detainees previously withheld by the government from a parliamentary committee.
Palin participates in Turkey Trot Dressed in jeans and coats, the Kennewick couple stood near the start line of the Turkey Trot hoping to see the woman they want back on the campaign trail for a run at the White House.
Canada ignored torture warnings: Diplomat - thestar.comOTTAWA – A former senior Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan has levelled bombshell allegations suggesting the military knowingly handed detainees to Afghan authorities who allowed them to be tortured.
Two Koreas hold rare talks on split familiesRed Cross officials from South Korea arrived in the North for three days of talks on Wednesday in a rare meeting between the rivals to discuss the plight of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
Koreas to discuss family reunionsNorth and South Korea are to hold talks on reuniting families divided by war in the 1950s, officials in Seoul say.
U.S. Shifts, Giving Names of Detainees to the Red CrossIn a reversal of Pentagon policy, the military for the first time is notifying the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of militants who were being held in secret at a camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan run by United States Special Operations forces, ac …
Military to give detainee names to Red CrossThe U.S. military has quietly tightened its detention policy to require that the International Committee of the Red Cross be notified promptly of terrorism suspects held at a special camp, an official said.
Helping after Taiwan typhoon, US avoids confronting China | csmonitor.comWashington - American officials are treading diplomatic waters carefully in providing humanitarian relief to Taiwan following the typhoon there earlier this month.
Al Kamen - Hagel Climbing the Ladder in Obama White House - washingtonpost.comFormer Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel (R), a senior administration official-in-waiting either later this term or in President Obama's second term (if there is one), is taking another step into Obama's national security team.
40pc think torturing enemy soldiers OKA new study has found more than 40 per cent of Australians believe it is acceptable to torture enemy soldiers in certain circumstances.
Israeli Grown Apples to be Shipped to SYRIA! Shipments consisting of more than 20 truckloads of Israeli grown apples will cross over into Syria from Israel via the Kuneitra Crossing which is located between the two countries in the Golan.
Top Jewish US writer - ICRC (Red Cross): Israel Traps Gazans in Deprivation and DespairQuote: "1.5 million other Gazans - trapped in the world's largest open-air prison, under siege for over two years, getting way inadequate outside help, and none whatever from Western powers ... Israel's slow-motion genocide"
First, Do Harm Doctors were involved with torture from the start. Can the medical profession redeem itself?
Civilians 'bear the brunt of war' Civilians bear the brunt of modern conflict, a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross suggests. Henri Dunant founded the organisation after witnessing the dead and dying soldiers at the battle of Solferino during the Italian wars of independence.
I hear a lot of "help the poor", but I don't hear "help the poor over here". Sometimes I think a take for granted that we are the lucky ones who are managing to get by here in the United States.
Vigil for Israeli SoldierThe UK Foundation for Missing In Action Israeli Soldiers together with the Israeli organisations in Manchester are holding a vigil to mark the third anniversary of the kidnapping by Hamas of GILAD SHALIT, who was aged only 19 when the outrage occurred.
Hamas rejects Red Cross call for Gilad Shalit"We welcome the fact that yesterday former US president Jimmy Carter handed Hamas a letter from Gilad Shalit's family to him," said Béatrice Mégevand-Roggo, the ICRC's head of operations for the Middle East and North Africa.
UN Calls for Inquiry on 'Unacceptably High' Civilian Death Toll in Sri LankaA senior UN official said the civilian death toll from the Sri Lankan government's crushing of the Tamil Tiger insurgency was "unacceptably high" and should be the subject of an official inquiry.
Red Cross Sees 'Unimaginable Humanitarian Catastrophe' in Sri Lanka Hundreds of seriously wounded or ill patients are waiting for medical care in north-eastern Sri Lanka but the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that for the third consecutive day it could not evacuate them due to heavy fighting.
Doctor: 50 die as shells hit Sri Lanka hospitalShells hit the only hospital in Sri Lanka's northern war zone Wednesday, killing at least 50 people in the second such attack in two days, a doctor said.
Hill Panel Reviewing CIA TacticsWhen the Justice Department said seven years ago that CIA interrogators at a secret prison in Thailand could make a suspected al-Qaeda leader fear he was drowning, it prescribed precise limits: Water could be poured from a cup or small watering can onto a saturated cloth covering …
US air strikes kill dozens of Afghan civiliansUS-led air strikes have killed dozens of Afghan people, the Red Cross said today as the Pentagon launched a joint investigation into what appeared one of the deadliest incidents and heaviest civilian losses so far at the hands of coalition forces.
Serb officer's murder acquittal overturnedThe U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal overturned the murder acquittal of a Serbian army officer on Tuesday, ruling that he did help kill 194 Croatian prisoners of war.
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