Tag: Red Cross
Children in armed conflicts: Italy to UNSC, their protection is our...
NEW YORK, MAY 8 - In the particularly challenging context and phase created by Covid-19, where school closures and limitations in accessing social and...
International Humanitarian Law: a course in Shama for UNIFIL soldiers
SHAMA, MAY 3 - The 150th International Humanitarian Law Course on Armed Conflict for International Operators was held at the ‘Millevoi’ base in Shama,...
IFRC’s Rocca in Tigray: “support to Ethiopian Red Cross”
ADDIS ABABA, FEBRUARY 9 - The President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Mr Francesco Rocca, is visiting...
UNIFIL: Italian peacekeepers distribute food packages to needy families
NAQOURA, OCTOBER 19 - UNIFIL’s Italian peacekeepers launched a campaign in south-western Lebanon to distribute food packages to needy families in order to improve the...
COVID-19: Rocca (IFRC), “a wake-up call to international community”
NEW YORK/GENEVA, APRIL 24 - Following his briefings to UN permanent missions this week, Francesco Rocca, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and...
ICRC: Del Re, Italy supports COVID-19 plan; concerns for Sahel, Yemen,...
ROME/GENEVA, APRIL 18 - Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re had a telephone conversation with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross...
Geneva Conventions: an exhibition in Rome for their 70th anniversary
ROME, NOVEMBER 6 - The Italian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emanuela Del Re, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross,...
ICRC: Robert Mardini from Lebanon is the next Director General
GENEVA, OCTOBER 31 - The Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appointed Robert Mardini to the post of director-general. Born...
IFRC: Francesco Rocca and the humanitarian price of climate change
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 19 - Francesco Rocca, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, made his appearance at the...
“Heatwaves are climate change’s silent killers”, says Rocca (Red Cross), calling...
NEW YORK, JULY 16 - A new resource launched today in New York will help cities prepare for heatwaves – extreme weather events that...