BANGKOK (AlertNet) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is cutting humanitarian aid to the Philippines by 50 million pesos ($1.16 million) in 2011, due to reduced funding brought ...

AT LEAST 235 people in Barangay Lawaan, a remote village in Gingoog City in Misamis Oriental, were provided with essential ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Humanitarian situation The harm caused to civilians by the conflict with the armed wing of the ...

MANILA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Philippine security forces will not stop search operations for three workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ignoring a demand by gunmen holding the group ...

MANILA, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expressed "deep concern" on Monday over the plight of nearly 2,000 villagers displaced by fighting in the island province ...

(Recasts with rebel threat to behead hostage) MANILA, March 18 (Reuters) - The leader of an Islamist rebel group which kidnapped three Red Cross officers in the southern Philippines threatened on ...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 4 December) — The Bangsamoro Darul-Ifta’ has issued a fatwa or religious guidance permitting the exhumation of graves to facilitate the identification of unknown victims who ...

Dear Mr. Bruwer & Mrs. Spoljaric, The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines expresses serious concern about the ICRC’s decision to situate an Asia-Pacific regional conference on ...

“The families have faced many challenges since they were displaced last year due to armed conflict. We hope that the assistance they have received could help pave the path to their recovery,” said Rim ...

“When we left, we took shelter in makeshift houses, but the displacement continued for much longer. That’s when we asked our relatives to take us in,” recalled Asniah*, the 54-year-old mother of eight ...