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• UEFA name Red Cross humanitarian partner for Euro 2008

  - 2007-11-13

  GENEVA AFP — European football's governing body UEFA have selected the international Red Cross ICRC as their official humanitarian partner for the 2008 European championships in Switzerland and Austria. The partnership will help finance the ICRC's work for the victims of landmines in Afghanistan," the ICRC said in a...

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• New US anti-terror law undermines international law: ICRC

  - 2006-10-19

  GENEVA AFP — The International Committee of the Red Cross said that a controversial new anti-terror law approved by President George W. Bush this week undermined international humanitarian law. ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger warned that the Military Commissions Act "disrupts" part of the Geneva Conventions that are regarded as "elementary...

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• Red Cross opens website to help relatives trace quake families

  - 2005-10-10

  GENEVA AFP — The International Red Cross opened up an Internet site to help relatives who are trying to get in touch with family members living in areas affected by the earthquake in South Asia. The website (http://www.icrc.org/home.nsf/home/webfamilylinks) allows people in the region to register as "safe and well",...

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• Red Cross website to help track Katrina missing logs 94,000 names

  - 2005-09-06

  GENEVA AFP — Some 94,000 names have been registered on a website set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross ICRC to help people trace one another in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the number is growing. Use of the list on www.familylinks.icrc.org, which is compiled...

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• Red Cross website for Katrina missing logs 94,000 names

  - 2005-09-06

  GENEVA AFP — Some 94,000 names have been registered on a website created by the international Red Cross to help people trace their relatives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and the number is growing, it said. Use of the list on www.familylinks.icrc.org, which is compiled jointly with the...

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• Red Cross overwhelmed by public response to tsunami disaster

  - 2004-12-30

  GENEVA AFP — The international Red Cross opened a special website to cope with an overwhelming number of donations from the general public for victims of the tidal waves in the Indian Ocean. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it had received at least...

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• ICRC sets up website to trace missing in tidal wave catastrophe

  - 2004-12-29

  GENEVA AFP — The Red Cross said that it had set up a website to help families trace relatives who may be missing following the huge earthquake and devastating tidal waves around the Indian Ocean. "People in the affected countries can register on the site to inform their families...

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• Red Cross rules out publication of Iraq prison reports

  - 2004-05-10

  GENEVA AFP ? The International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC reiterated it would not make public reports it has written on the treatment of Iraqi detainees by US and British forces in Iraq. ICRC spokeswoman Antonella Notari was responding to British Prime Minister Tony Blair's comment earlier Monday...

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