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Montevideo, December 9th 2025 - 00:19 UTC

Tag: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

  • Friday, November 28th 2025 - 21:52 UTC

    ICRC President warns of humanitarian deterioration in Colombia

    “Children are disproportionately affected” in Cauca, Spoljaric said

    International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric issued a statement on Friday upon completing her three-day visit to Colombia. In the document, she warned about the severe deterioration of the humanitarian crisis nine years after the peace deal between the Government and some guerrilla groups.

  • Sunday, January 19th 2025 - 19:45 UTC

    One Briton among three Israeli hostages released by Hamas

    Damari was in a joyful mood despite her bandaged hand lacking two fingers reportedly lost during her abduction in Kibbutz Kfar Aza

    Three Israeli women who had been held hostage by the pro-Palestine terrorist group Hamas were set free Sunday in exchange for dozens of convicted organization operatives as the ceasefire brokered together with Qatar, Egypt, and the United States became effective.

  • Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 23:46 UTC

    Humanitarian Project in Falkland, Red Cross begins contacts in Buenos Aires

    Foreign minister Diana Mondino and Mr. Carbonnier with the Red Cross delegation at the Argentine Foreign ministry in Buenos Aires

    On Wednesday, October 16th, Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino received Gilles Carbonier, vice president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, to discuss the resumption of negotiations for the Third Plan of the Humanitarian Project, which is geared to the identification of Argentine combatants who fell in the Falklands during the South Atlantic conflict of 1982.

  • Sunday, November 26th 2023 - 23:28 UTC

    Second swap between Israel and Hamas successful

    “We cannot abandon the operation and the war in Gaza until we bring back all the hostages,” Gallant said

    The pro-Palestinian terrorist group Hamas Saturday released another batch of hostages, consisting of 13 Israeli citizens and 4 Thais, in exchange for another 39 prison inmates held by Tel Aviv, matching the 1:3 ratio agreed upon for the duration of the humanitarian truce. The exchanges took longer than expected, it was reported.

  • Monday, April 4th 2022 - 21:52 UTC

    Falklands newsman would like an apology for 1982

    “The Falklanders did not deserve to suffer as they did in 1982,” Bound stressed. Photo: Argentine prisoners of war by Graham Bound

    While Argentina's Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero wrote for The Guardian last week that his country posed a threat to no one, Graham Bound, founder of Port Stanley's Penguin News, told the Spanish newswire service EFE that the presence of British troops on the islands did serve a purpose.

  • Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:59 UTC

    “The saddest page of history between Argentina and Britain”, Ambassador Hayes

    Ambassador Hayes said “it was not the only page of shared history, nor the first and definitively not the last”

    Kirsty Hayes, current British ambassador in Argentina wrote a column, published in Buenos Aires main daily, La Nacion pointing out that April 2nd was the beginning of the saddest page of the wide history of relations between Argentines and British. A painful date that brings sad memories to many families and sensitizes us all who some way or another work to build bridges between our nations, Ambassador Hayes begins her column.

  • Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 20:14 UTC

    Ukraine: ICRC warns “nuclear explosion would cause insurmountable challenges”

    “It is extremely doubtful that nuclear weapons could ever be used in accordance with the principles and rules of international humanitarian law,” Durham feared

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)'s Director of Law and Policy, Helen Durham, Monday issued a statement saying the body was 'alarmed' by the threats the world is facing amid escalating violence in Ukraine involving the Russian Federation's military forces, which could lead to a nuclear confrontation with western powers.

  • Wednesday, March 2nd 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    Falklands: Argentina interested in a third phase of the Plan to identify fallen combatants in Malvinas

    The Argentine military cemetery at Darwin were the remains of 115 combatants were identified under the Humanitarian Project Plan under Red Cross guidance

    Argentina is interested in a third phase of the Humanitarian Project Plan which has successfully helped with the identification of Argentine combatants fallen in the Falklands/Malvinas during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict, triggered by the Argentine invasion of the Islands. Argentine president Alberto Fernandez made the announcement during his annual March first speech to Congress, officially opening the legislative year.

  • Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas: Red Cross presents final report after six Argentine soldiers are identified

    The Argentine military cemetery at Darwin where remains of 115 soldiers were identified

    The International Committee of the Red Cross presented on Monday, in Geneva, its final report on forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

  • Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

    Remains of Argentine combatants identified at last by ICRC mission

    ”We were able to identify the remains of six people and give answers to their families, after so many years,” ICRC's Corbaz said.

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Second Humanitarian Project Plan has identified the remains of four Argentine combatants from the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas war buried in grave C.1.10 at Darwin's military cemetery under wrong names, it was announced Tuesday.

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