Category: press releases
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Gaza: Red Cross and Red Crescent Teams Working to Save Lives in the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah
Gaza / Geneva (ICRC) – An influx of patients with severe injuries and burns from an airstrike arrived at the Red Cross field hospital in Rafah, Gaza, desperately needing treatment on the night of May 26th, 2024. “We experienced first-hand the horror of this war, witnessing the appalling injuries and death. We had a mass casualty…
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$5 Billion Asian Development Fund Replenishment Agreed to Support Most Vulnerable in Asia and Pacific
TBILISI, GEORGIA (3 May 2024) — Donors and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed to a replenishment of $5 billion for ADB’s Asian Development Fund (ADF) 14 and Technical Assistance Special Fund (TASF) 8. The commitment was made during ADB’s 57th Annual Meeting. The ADF is ADB’s largest source of grants for operations in its poorest…
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Empowering Women and Ending Poverty through Social Entrepreneurship: Social Enterprise Trade Fair and Exhibit Features Impactful Work of Women in the Social Enterprise Sectors
Women-led social enterprises and social enterprises supporting women and marginalized communities take on the spotlight of this year’s Social Enterprise Trade Fair and Exhibit happening on March 11-14, 2024 at the 4th Floor Hallway of the Senate Building in Pasay City, Metro Manila. A Social Enterprise Trade Fair and Exhibit is organized to amplify the Poverty…
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Women’s Month: Oxfam Pilipinas Calls for Gender Equality, Feminist Financing
Oxfam Pilipinas, in partnership with the Philippine Commission on Women and Eastwood City, welcomed National Women’s Month with the launch of its gender equality campaign calling for increased public and private sector financing to close gender gaps. Oxfam Pilipinas kicked off its campaign called “Dapat All Equal,” which will run from 2024 to 2027 in…
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Single-use Plastic is Banned in Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park
The escalating plastic crisis does not spare even the protected areas. This has prompted one of the most important key biodiversity areas in the country to ban single-use plastics. The Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) of Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park (NSMNP) in Isabela approved a resolution banning single-use plastics in the country’s largest protected…
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Meet These 8 Women with a New Vision for Earth – Featuring Filipina Trailblazer
On International Women’s Day, the Global Landscapes Forum celebrates women transforming the world through finance, science, public policy, art, private initiatives, Indigenous knowledge and youth engagement.
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Agusan del Norte Farmers Seek to Boost Harvest Processing Capacity with New Equipment
Around 107 families from the suburbs of Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte, some of whom have been displaced by conflict, are set to improve their harvest processing capacity after receiving post-harvest machinery from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Residents of Sitio Lusong in Barangay Puting Bato received a corn sheller and corn…
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Taytay Passes Landmark Ordinance to Protect Children’s Health
The local government of Taytay, Rizal yesterday passed an ordinance that restricts child-targeted marketing of ultra-processed food and beverages within the municipality, in a bid to protect children from obesity and other diet-related health risks. Ordinance No. 2307-036 or An Ordinance to Protect Children from the Harmful Impacts of Food and Beverage Marketing’, introduced by…
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Young Filipino Nature Conservationist Features in New Cohort of Global Restoration Stewards
Young people across the globe are spearheading the movement for a fairer and healthier world through activism, outreach and community-led solutions for ecosystems and livelihoods. Nature conservationist Jann Vinze Barcinal was selected from over 300 candidates as one of the 2024 Restoration Stewards, by international organizations the Youth in Landscapes Initiative and the Global Landscapes Forum to receive funding, mentoring and…
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Road Crashes are Top Killer of Children and Youth Globally – Report
Quezon City – Road crashes are the top killer of children and youth worldwide, according to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. More than half of the fatalities are among pedestrians and motorcyclists, the report furthered. Based on 2019 data on the age distribution of all-cause mortality, road traffic injury…
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Philippines: 19 AFP lawyers trained to apply the rules of war while providing legal advice
Manila (ICRC) – Nineteen newly recruited officers of the Judge Advocate General Service (JAGS), the legal counsels of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), underwent a three-week training on international humanitarian law (IHL) or the law of armed conflict.
