ICRC [to 4 July 2015]

ICRC [to 4 July 2015]
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Yemen: Vital food aid delivered across front lines in Aden
News release
02 July 2015
Sana’a/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross has today started a distribution of food across the front lines in the southern city of Aden. The consignment of more than 160 tons will cover the emergency needs of 17,500 people. Around half of Aden’s population are displaced from their homes, seeking shelter in any available space in the town.

Nepal: ICRC introduces new app to help reconnect families
Article
01 July 2015
The ICRC has introduced Familylinks ANSWERS, a new web application to help reconnect families separated by the earthquakes in Nepal earlier this year. This new technology, which can also be used in times of other disasters, means families will be reconnected more quickly.

Common ethical principles of health care in conflict and other emergencies
Article
30 June 2015
The World Medical Association (WMA), the International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM), the International Council of Nurses (ICN), and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), representing more than 30 million people from both the military and civilian realms, have adopted the “Ethical Principles of Health Care in Times of Armed Conflict and Other Emergencies”, a first-of-its-kind code of ethics that provides a common core for these major international health care organizations.

Mali: Over 250,000 people receive aid in north
News release
29 June 2015
Geneva / Bamako (ICRC) – Enduring terrible hardship, often with no means of survival or even shelter: that is the reality for thousands who have fled widespread violence in northern Mali in recent months. Their plight has prompted the distribution of 1,400 tonnes of food, as well as seed and other essential supplies, in and around Mopti, Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working together with the Mali Red Cross and community leaders.