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the media, containing all ICRC news releases and operational bulletins from the field. The ICRC’s presence in conflict areas and insight into problems faced by victims makes it the essential reference on the humanitarian consequences of war. </div><table width="100%" style="clear:both;"><tr><td valign="top" class="col2"><div class="keydocs"><div class="sepline"> </div><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">1-7-2005</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/5XS9UV?OpenDocument"></a><a href="#"></a><span class="descriptionblock"><div class="subhead7" id="subheadid">  Latest news </div></span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table></div><div class="newsdocs21"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">20-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/nuclear-weapons-news-200410">Nuclear weapons: historic opportunity to ensure they will never be used again</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Geneva (ICRC) – States have an historic opportunity to bring the era of nuclear weapons to an end once and for all, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today. Addressing diplomats in Geneva, the ICRC's president, Jakob Kellenberger, appealed to States to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">20-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  TV news footage</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/weapons-tvnews-200410">Geneva: ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger appeals to States to ensure nuclear weapons are never used again</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Addressing diplomats at the ICRC's headquarters in Geneva today, the organisation's president, Jakob Kellenberger, appealed to States to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again. "Nations have a historic and unprecedented opportunity to bring the era of nuclear weapons to an end," he said.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">16-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/congo-kinshasa-news-160410">Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC confirms release of eight staff members in South Kivu</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Geneva/Kinshasa (ICRC) – The eight staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held since 9 April by an armed group operating in South Kivu province were released today in the Fizi area and handed over to ICRC personnel.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">16-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  Operational update</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/kyrgyzstan-update-160410">Kyrgyzstan: nine days after clashes, health and protection concerns remain</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Relative calm has returned to Bishkek but the overall situation remains tense. While the most urgent humanitarian needs of the affected population, particularly medical and surgical ones, have by now been covered, the ICRC continues to give a special attention to people wounded during the clashes, including members of the police and security forces.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">14-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  Operational update</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/afghanistan-update-140410">Afghanistan: homemade bombs and improvised mines kill and maim civilians in south</a><br clear="all"><div class="listpicto"><img src="/web/20100422204220im_/http://www.icrc.org/Web\eng\siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/afghanistan-update-140410/$File/home_picto.gif"></div><span class="descriptionblock">Homemade bombs and improvised mines continue to pose a major threat to civilians in the south of Afghanistan. In the last few weeks, ICRC medical personnel at Mirwais regional hospital in Kandahar have observed a substantial increase in casualties.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">14-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/pakistan-news-140410">Pakistan: ICRC and Pakistan Red Crescent step up efforts in Hangu as more people flee fighting</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Islamabad (ICRC) – People fleeing recent fighting in Orakzai and Kurram agencies are arriving in the adjacent district of Hangu in urgent need of food, medicine and other items.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">13-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/congo-kinshasa-news-130410">Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC staff held by armed group in South Kivu</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Geneva/Kinshasa (ICRC) – A Swiss delegate and seven Congolese staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been held since 9 April in the vicinity of Fizi by Mai Mai Yakutumba, an armed group operating in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">12-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/funds-and-medals-news-120410">Empress Shôken Fund: helping National Societies respond today, plan for tomorrow</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">In 2010, the Empress Shôken Fund will grant more than 111,000 Swiss francs to three projects carried out by Red Cross Societies on three continents.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">10-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/kyrgyzstan-news-100410">Kyrgyzstan: first ICRC relief flight arrives in Bishkek</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Bishkek (ICRC) – An ICRC flight delivered over a tonne of medical and mortuary supplies to the Kyrgyz capital today, Saturday 10 April. The flight left Peshawar (Pakistan) this morning and landed in Bishkek around 4 p.m. local time. Its payload included a medical kit for treating approximately 50 people wounded by weapons, dressing kits, vaccines and body bags.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">9-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/kyrgyzstan-interview-090410">Kyrgyzstan: ICRC concerned about response to violence</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Bishkek (ICRC) – Two days after the violent clashes in Bishkek and other Kyrgyz cities, the situation remains uncertain and tense throughout the country, with reports of looting and violence, centered mostly in Bishkek, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">9-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/nigeria-news-090410">Nigeria: ICRC briefs Nigerian armed forces in Niger Delta</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Abuja (ICRC) – More than 100 members of the Joint Task Force (JTF) have attended briefings by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The briefings covered the role of the ICRC and the Nigerian Red Cross in the Niger Delta, together with the principles of respect for life and human dignity as they apply in that troubled region.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">9-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/kosovo-news-090410">Kosovo: ICRC continues to press for more information on missing persons</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Pristina/Belgrade (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has today chaired the ninth public session of the Working Group on persons missing in relation to the events in Kosovo of January 1998 to December 2000.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">7-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/kyrgyzstan-news-070410">Kyrgyzstan: ICRC provides medical aid for victims of violence</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been providing first-aid materials to health-care facilities in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek following Wednesday's violent demonstrations. </span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">7-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/armenia-azerbaijan-news-070410">Armenia/Azerbaijan: one Azerbaijani soldier and bodies of two citizens repatriated under ICRC auspices</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Yerevan/Baku (ICRC) – An Azerbaijani soldier detained in Yerevan, Armenia was today repatriated to the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">6-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/mali-niger-news-060410">Niger/Mali: ICRC to assist over 100,000 victims of violence and economic hardship</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Niamey (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is launching extensive assistance programmes for more than 100,000 people affected by adverse weather conditions and violence in northern Niger and Mali.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">1-4-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/colombia-news-010410">Colombia: FARC hands over mortal remains of Police Major Guevara</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Villavicencio (ICRC) – On the afternoon of 1 April, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) handed over the mortal remains of Police Major Julián Ernesto Guevara to delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba and Bishop Leonardo Gómez Serna, in a rural area of Guaviare. </span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">30-3-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/colombia-news-300310">Colombia: Sergeant Moncayo is free after 12 years in captivity</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Bogotá (ICRC) – This afternoon, in a rural area of Caquetá, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) released Sergeant Pablo Emilio Moncayo. He had been held for over 12 years. He was handed over to delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba and Monsignor Leonardo Gómez Serna.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">29-3-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/cote-d-ivoire-news-290310">Côte d'Ivoire: Red Cross brings aid to 37 villages in west of country</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Abidjan (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in cooperation with the Red Cross Society of Côte d'Ivoire, is mounting an aid operation from 29 March to 1 April for some 15,000 people in the Moyen-Cavally area near the border with Liberia. 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The ICRC is offering the course in association with Goa University's V. M. 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class="descriptionblock">Geneva/Kuwait/Baghdad (ICRC) – The families of six Iraqis detained in Kuwait in connection with the 1990-1991 Gulf War have begun a three-day visit to their relatives held at the Kuwait Central Prison.</span><div class="listpath">(News)</div></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div class="docinfo"><span class="date">22-3-2010</span><span class="doctype">  News release</span></div><a class="title" href="/web/20100422204220/http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/azerbaijan-news-220310">Tuberculosis: a killer that can’t be kept behind bars</a><br clear="all"><span class="descriptionblock">Geneva (ICRC) – Attempts to stem the alarming spread of tuberculosis (TB) across the globe are likely to fall well short of what’s needed unless authorities in affected countries significantly increase their efforts to stop the deadly disease from breeding inside prisons, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross 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