ICRC [to 29 August 2015]
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Families of the missing live with uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones
News release
28 August 2015
Kampala (ICRC) – Families of thousands of missing persons in northern Uganda continue to live in the sorrowful ambiguity of the loss of their loved ones, unsure whether to wait for their uncertain return or consider them as dead.

Yemen: Situation deteriorating in Taiz
News release
28 August 2015
Geneva / Sana’a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seriously concerned about an increase in fighting in the city of Taiz. There has been indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas. Essential infrastructure is being destroyed.

Syria: Emergency medical supplies delivered following heavy fighting in north-east
News release
27 August 2015
Damascus (ICRC) – Health-care needs are growing in north-eastern Syria as a result of the fighting, including a bomb explosion in Qamishli on 19 August. Medical supplies have been delivered this week to hospitals in the cities of Qamishli, Ras el-Ein and Hassakeh as part of a joint operation by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC).

International Day of the Disappeared: ICRC calls for more efforts to establish fate of missing from Bougainville conflict
News release
27 August 2015
Port Moresby (ICRC) – Governments and civil societies around the world must do more to establish the fate and whereabouts of people who disappear in conflicts or other circumstances and give stronger support to the families left behind, the International Committee of the Red Cross has said. Under international law, this obligation lies clearly with authorities and all former parties to the conflict.

Lebanon: Violence erupts in country’s biggest Palestinian camp
News release
26 August 2015
Beirut / Tyre (ICRC) – Clashes in Ein el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon’s southern district of Saida have been among the fiercest in recent years and resulted in many casualties. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today distributed surgical and other medical supplies to several health-care facilities treating the wounded inside and outside the camp. One of the wounded was transferred to the ICRC’s Weapon Traumatology and Training Center in Tripoli. In addition, the ICRC today distributed drinking water, jerrycans and hygiene kits to 35 families who fled the violence in the camp and found refuge in mosques.

Yemen: ICRC office in Aden attacked
News release
25 August 2015
Sana’a/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) strongly condemns an attack which has taken place on its offices in the city of Aden in Yemen. Unidentified gunmen stormed the building on Monday (24 August, 2015) and held staff at gunpoint. Cars, cash and equipment were subsequently stolen. As a result, fourteen international staff members have been relocated.

Weapons: ICRC sounds alarm on arms trade
News release
24 August 2015
Geneva/Cancun, Mexico – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has voiced concern that many countries are still involved in illegal arms transfers despite having committed themselves to an international treaty to regulate the flow of such weapons. The organisation says that hundreds of thousands of civilians are being killed, injured or forcibly displaced in conflicts fuelled by such transfers.