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When fighters entered her village, 17-year-old Célestine grabbed her 7-year-old ... With 170,000 fellow Ivorians, they crossed the ... A year later, she heads home, anxious about what the future may hold.

• 2012-01-18
• Video

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Reuniting families

• Places
  • Africa
    • Côte d'Ivoire

• Places
  • Africa
    • Liberia

• People
  • Children

Some were so young at the time that they do not even know their parents’ full names or the name of their home town, ... arrived in a village not far from their home and sought refuge there.

• 2008-03-12
• Feature

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Reuniting families

• Places
  • Africa
    • Sierra Leone

If you decide to go to your home... ... Do not go to your home if other people in the area tell you that it is dangero us! ... If you go to your home and find something suspicious...

• 1999-08-03
• Miscellaneous
• Archived page

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • Serbia

Tamar’s remains were exhumed and transferred to Tbilisi National Forensic Bureau, where analysis and identification were carried ... Of course this was a sad day, but it was tinged with happiness, ...

• 2011-08-24
• Feature

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • Georgia

• People
  • Missing persons

On the border between South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, armed groups abduct ... Some eventually manage to escape but end up far away from home, often on the wrong side of the border.

• 2011-10-24
• Miscellaneous

Beyond the financial loss, there is an emotional toll when people abandon their home and leave their friends and families behind. ... in their homes and avoid becoming displaced – such as Nelsy Cuaces.

• 2011-04-13
• News Footage

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Protected persons
      • Refugees and displaced persons

• Places
  • The Americas
    • Colombia

• People
  • Refugees and displaced persons

Emanuela-Chiara Gillard There’s no place like home: states’ obligations in relation to transfers of persons 30-09-2008 Article, ... no place like home: states’ obligations in relation to transfers of ...

• 2008-09-30
• Article
• by: Emanuela-Chiara Gillard

... children are abducted from their homes by armed groups and forced to go on a perilous journey from which many do not return. ... The ICRC's Ewan Watson accompanied some of these children on their trip home ...

• 2010-12-03
• Feature

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Reuniting families

• Places
  • Africa
    • Central African Republic

• People
  • Children

The fighting over the past two weeks in Abidjan has forced thousands to flee their homes for safer neighborhoods, ... to flee their homes for safer neighborhoods, where the ICRC is helping many of ...

• 2011-03-11
• Feature

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Ensuring economic security

• Places
  • Africa
    • Côte d'Ivoire

• People
  • Refugees and displaced persons

... the country, the first thought of those displaced is to return to their homes and resume their lives. ... the first thought of those displaced is to return to their homes and resume their lives.

• 2010-10-21
• News Release
• Archived page

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Ensuring economic security

• Places
  • Asia and the Pacific
    • Pakistan

• People
  • Refugees and displaced persons

Benghazi / Tripoli / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of ... Prior to their departure, we made sure that each of the five actually wished to go to Tripoli." The ICRC has since early March ...

• 2011-04-30
• News Release
• Archived page

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Reuniting families

• Places
  • Africa
    • Libya

Fifteen children, until recently soldiers, are greeted in Bukavu on their way home. ... until recently soldiers, are greeted in Bukavu on their way home. ... to celebrate their imminent return home.

• 2010-08-12
• Feature

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Reuniting families

• Places
  • Africa
    • Congo-Kinshasa

• People
  • Children

“Every time I visited, she would tell me how she prayed to stay ... “Al Hamdullilah (thanks be to God), when I came back to my home I found all my family around me,” he says in his Indian-accented ...

• 2009-05-01
• Feature

• Places
  • Middle East
    • Lebanon

Now, they have begun the journey home to their villages in the north-west of the CAR. ... Now, they have begun the journey home to their villages in the north-west of the CAR. ... home, but banditry is rife ...

• 2008-08-08
• Feature

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Ensuring economic security

• Places
  • Africa
    • Central African Republic

• People
  • Refugees and displaced persons

Thousands of Gaza citizens were ... Abu Hadi finally smiles as he's able to board the bus that will take him home to Gaza. ... I just waited until I was told that they would finally let us go home...

• 2007-08-08
• Feature
• Archived page

• Places
  • Middle East
    • Israel

• Places
  • Middle East
    • Palestine

Residents shouted, "Welcome home!" to the 61-year-old, his wife Khun Kwan and their young daughter as they arrived in the city ... Residents shouted, "Welcome home!" to the 61-year-old, his wife Khun ...

• 2009-07-18
• Feature
• Archived page

• Places
  • Asia and the Pacific
    • Philippines

For 14 months, they left their well-equipped hospital back home to work at Keysaney and Medina Hospitals in Mogadishu. During a brief stop in Geneva on the way home, they took time out to talk about ...

• 2008-12-30
• Interview

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Health

• Places
  • Africa
    • Somalia

Going home after being forced to flee during the course of an armed conflict is an intensely emotional experience. ... 05-08-2004 Feature Going home after being forced to flee during the course of an armed ...

• 2004-08-05
• Feature
• Archived page

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Ensuring economic security

• Places
  • Asia and the Pacific
    • Pakistan

... Kisangani that the ICRC has taken home many of those displaced during the conflict which brought Laurent Désiré Kabila to power. ... Bukavu and Kindu are to be taken home by plane, boat or train.

• 1997-12-18
• Miscellaneous
• Archived page

• Places
  • Africa
    • Congo-Kinshasa

30-11-1999 Feature " I'm going home? I'm going home? Am I really going home?

• 1999-11-30
• Feature
• Archived page

• Places
  • Asia and the Pacific
    • Indonesia

• Places
  • Asia and the Pacific
    • Timor-Leste

... detainees from Serbia proper to their homes in Kosovo — the third such group to be released following the passing of an amnesty act by ... to their homes, including some 150 freed as a direct result ...

• 2001-03-15
• News Release
• Archived page

13-09-1995 News Release 37 In Tajikistan, 3,000 displaced persons have returned to their homes from the semi-autonomous region of ... Since 1993, the ICRC has been assisting displaced persons returning to ...

• 1995-09-13
• News Release
• Archived page

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • Tajikistan

... kilometres through mountains on 28 August to return to their home villages in the southern region of Chiapas. ... " The returnees had had to flee their homes owing to incursions of armed groups and had ...

• 2001-09-07
• News Release
• Archived page

• Places
  • The Americas
    • Mexico

... some 350 civilians from Karainagar and islands west of the Jaffna peninsula to return to their homes. The people concerned had been stranded in the eastern town of Trincomalee since last summer, ...

• 1996-03-06
• News Release
• Archived page

• Places
  • Asia and the Pacific
    • Sri Lanka

... to return from Pavarando to their homes in Villa Hermosa (both towns in the Urabá region of northern Antioquia department). ... The government and a number of national and international bodies studying ...

• 1998-01-22
• News Release
• Archived page

• Places
  • The Americas
    • Colombia