ICRC

Near Basra, ICRC contractor was repairing a water pipe after it was damaged by an explosion during the war.

An ICRC report said the territory's economy and infrastructure had collapsed since the Israeli military offensive in Gaza six months ago.

The Head of ICRC Operations, Pierre Kraehenbuehl, called it a full blown humanitarian crisis.

An ICRC spokeswoman said the fighting was too fierce and another attempt would be made on Wednesday.

The ICRC has a mandate to assist and protect victims of war, and for that reason it promotes and strengthens international humanitarian law.

Until now, the ICRC has still not received confirmation from the Israeli authorities that this will be allowed.

The ICRC's Somalia relief coordinator, Mathias Frese, said the organization will have tripled its food aid to Somalia from 2007 to 2008.

An Afghan girl touches her mother's artificial leg the ICRC Ali Abad Orthopaedic centre in Kabul November 12, 2009.

The ICRC also is providing protective clothing, as well as other supplies and transportation for people working in this campaign.

In a hospital in Baghdad supported by the ICRC, volunteers are helping patients to wash themselves.

From its regional logistics centre and various delegations in Africa, ICRC spent an estimated US$68million on procurement.

Some 18, 000 people living in camps in that area had received aid this week from the ICRC, she said.

When conflicts erupt, it seeks to get all parties to commit to observing the rules by way of special agreements.

The ICRC said people are trapped and unable to flee to areas of safety.

ICRC's humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance.

AS EVERY student of warfare knows, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is staunchly, and at times controversially, neutral.

Currently 186 National Societies are recognized by the ICRC and admitted as full members of the Federation.

The Chinese government is willing to maintain dialogue and communications with the ICRC and continue to deepen the bilateral cooperation.

So, the ICRC was obviously still in contact with the prison authorities of Myanmar.

And obviously, this is an area in which the ICRC has developed a particular specialty, really on two fronts.

The ICRC has been excluded from the area of north-eastern Sri Lanka hardest hit by fighting in recent weeks.

The ICRC again urged Israel to lift the blockade it imposed after the Islamist Hamas Movement took power in Gaza in 2007.

Afghanistan , 1996 - land mine victims learned to walk on prosthetic legs at icrc clinic .

The ICRC and Chinese embassy in Nairobi declined to comment.

The ICRC had also donated medicines and some surgical instruments.

The ICRC receives money not only from some governments, but also from individuals, out of goodness of their hearts.

The ICRC has said that one of its workers was killed in the no-fire zone by shellfire on Wednesday.

A Red Cross website (familylinks. icrc. org) has details of 125, 000 families.

Indeed, the ICRC points out that "common article 3" of the 1949 conventions requires the humane treatment of any person in enemy hands;

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