Red Cross: Colombian Government Must Find 83,000 Disappeared Persons

The ICRC asked the Colombian government to implement more effective measures to prevent further disappearances.

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By teleSUR
U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), escorts Colombian President-elect Ivan Duque at the command’s headquarters in Doral, Fla., July 14. Photo | SOUTHCOM

The ICRC asked the Colombian government to implement more effective measures to prevent further disappearances. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has urged the new Colombian government to search for the over 83,000 people who disappeared in the country, in commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared, which takes

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Apple And Others Help Customers Donate To The Red Cross, And Only The Red Cross

Despite yet more evidence of trouble with the Red Cross’ disaster response — this time to floods in Louisiana — Apple, Amazon, T-Mobile, and many others have made the venerable charity the exclusive conduit for helping victims.

Derek Kravitz
By Derek Kravitz
James Hennessy, a Red Cross mental health volunteer from Tallahassee, Florida, takes a photo of Old Jefferson Highway which he was hoping to cross to reach Baton Rouge in Prairieville, La., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016.

This month's epic flooding in Louisiana, which destroyed roughly 60,000 homes, is the worst natural disaster in the United States since Superstorm Sandy in 2012. And just like after Sandy and other disasters, local officials have been troubled by the Red Cross' response. Louisiana's governor has been so concerned by the charity's relief work

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Red Cross Misled Congress, Refused To ‘Level With The People’ On Haiti Money

“One of the reasons they don’t want to answer the questions is it’s very embarrassing,” says Sen. Charles Grassley, who just finished a yearlong investigation of the Red Cross.

Justin Elliot
By Justin Elliot
A patient stands as he adjusts his intravenous line at the Red Cross funded State University of Haiti Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Friday, July 9, 2010.

A blistering Senate report on the American Red Cross raises fundamental questions about the integrity of the country’s most storied charity and its stewardship of donors’ dollars. The report, which was released today by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and contains nearly 300 pages of supporting documents, found: After the 2010 Haiti

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Red Cross: Saudi-Led Coalition ‘Deliberately’ Targeting Hospitals In Yemen

With a stockpile of Western arms, the Saudi siege of Yemen has hit nearly 100 healthcare facilities in war-torn country since March.

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
Afghan MSF medical personnel treat civilians injured following an offensive against Taliban militants by Afghan and coalition forces at the MSF hospital in Kunduz.

The Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen has repeatedly targeted and attacked hospitals and clinics, an appalling trend that "disrespects the neutrality of health facilities" in war, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday. The U.S.-backed coalition has bombed nearly 100 hospitals throughout Yemen since March, with the

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Disappearances In Sri Lanka Reflect A Troubling Trend

The arrests of humanitarians in Sri Lanka are indicative of a nation living in fear of its past.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

Late Tuesday night, a regional magistrate ordered the release of two Sri Lankan human rights activists that had been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial or religious disharmony or violence between ethnic groups. Their cases are part of a troubling trend of arrests, alleged torture and “disappearances” that reflect the state of the Sri Lankan

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North Korean And Japanese Red Cross Officials Meet In China

The rare meeting is meant to vet out long-standing animosities over the repatriation of remains of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean spies in the early 1970s and 80s, among other issues.

Les Neuhaus
By Les Neuhaus
Ri Ho Rim, Osamu Tasaka

The Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea opened a meeting in Shenyang, China, on Monday to discuss the repatriation of the remains of Japanese citizens who died in North Korea, according to news reports. This is the first Red Cross meeting between the two countries since August 2012, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. The 2012 talks were

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