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Throughout his life, AWR friend Henk Glimmerveen (1923-2020) showed that engaged citizens can make a difference.
Date of source: Sunday, April 14, 2019
"The role of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is important in disseminating and promoting the provisions of international humanitarian law and global humanitarian principles" said Muḥammad Fāʾiq, president of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR).
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2019
A New Zealand force entered in Syria, to carry out a search for the "New Zealand nurse" Louisa Akavi, whom the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced to be among its three kidnapped officers in Syria in 2013.
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2012
In a meeting with Klaus Spreyerman, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegations in Egypt, and Dr ‘Amir al-Zamālī, ICRC Advisor on Islamic World Affairs, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, called on international relief organizations to assist all victims of...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2014
A hospital belonging to the Red Cross in Linz, Austria, refused to accept a blood donation of a Saudi man and a number of other Muslims. The Austrian Islamic IRG foundation, which organized the blood donation campaign, filed a complaint against the responsible doctor, accusing the Red Cross of...
Date of source: Thursday, February 13, 2014
The Muslim community in the city of Linz, Austria, is outraged after the Red Cross refused to accept a blood donation by Muslims. The Islamic IRG foundation (Austria-based charity group for Austrian Muslims) had been campaigning for Muslims to donate blood, but the Red Cross rejected the blood...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 6, 2014
The Iraqi Red Crescent Association has revealed that its has obtained information that ISIS is transporting Yazidi and Christian women to an unknown place to sell them as slaves.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Saudi and Egyptian Muslim scholars welcome King ‘Abd Allāh Ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz’ initiative to launch an interreligious dialogue process between Islam and the other heavenly religions.
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005
The Bosnian Muslims in Sarajevo suffered horrifically at the hands of the Slavic Serbs 10 years ago but the world did not remember the atrocities until Srebrenica celebrated the 10th anniversary of the genocides.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
It was a sight sickening to hundreds of millions of Christians and the source of outrage among senior clerics across the world. A tower of smoke uncoiled high above the rooftops of Bethlehem yesterday, testimony to a fire burning by the church marking the place of Christ´s birth.