One year – seven countries

In 2013, the ICRC worked to protect and assist millions of people in armed conflicts and other situations of violence - men, women and children whose lives and communities were torn apart, their homes and livelihoods destroyed, and who were forced to flee and survive with no access to basic services and suffer the loss, disappearance or injury of loved ones.
This is a snapshot of activities in the top seven operations of the ICRC last year. http://www.icrcproject.org/app/2013-annual-report/index.php

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the component of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, which operates exclusively in situations of armed conflict, published its annual report.

Facts and figures:

More than 6.7 million people received aid in the form of food and more than 3.4 million received aid in the form of essential household and hygiene items;

The ICRC's water, sanitation and construction projects benefited some 28.7 million people – the majority of whom were women and children;

Over 8.2 million patients received treatment at ICRC - supported health facilities;

ICRC delegates visited over 750,000 detainees in 96countries, including detainees under the jurisdiction of international courts and tribunals;

The ICRC handled over 247,000 Red Cross messages, enabling family members separated by hostilities and other crises to restore contact, with more than 34,000 of the messages being exchanged between detainees and their families;

The organization facilitated over 357,000 phone calls between family members, often between detainees and their relatives.

BRC actively cooperate with the ICRC in several areas and directions:

Tracing and restoring family links, including the reunion of separated refugee families

Providing free phone calls of refugees in Bulgaria with their relatives around the world

Dissemination of International Humanitarian Law

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