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Int. Red Cross head to Moscow to plead for 2 hr/day aid breaks

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:09:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Visit “against deteriorating humanitarian aid background” as fighting breaks out in capital GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Jacob Kellenberger, head of the Geneva-based International Red Cross, is in Moscow Monday 19 March to ask Russian authorities for help in getting a two-hour daily break in fighting in Syria. Kellenberger’s visit “takes place against the background of a [...]

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Int’l aid from Geneva: Haiti looking better, Syria mixed picture

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:55:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two of the main Geneva-based aid organizations are reporting very different situations in the field this week. The IOM (International Organization for Migration) Tuesday 28 February announced the relatively good news that the number of people still living in camps in Haiti has fallen to under half a million people for the [...]

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Smart recycling for furniture and clothes

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:59:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Good but unwanted furniture and clothes can’t just end up in the garbage! Some suggestions for recycling: Neighbouring France Two charitable French associations will gladly welcome your household items, books, toys and clothes as long as they are in good, working condition. The groups will even schedule a pick up at your home for big pieces such as [...]

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Red Cross warns Libyans about unexploded ordnance

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:29:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The ICRC (International Red Cross) in Geneva and the Libyan Red Cross have begun a three-week radio campaign in Libya to warn the population of the danger of explosive remnants of war. The programme is being launched a day after the Landmine Monitor Report 2011 cautioned that landmine detection work will need [...]

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Colombian child released with Red Cross help

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:51:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl in Colombia three weeks ago outraged the country and when Nohora Valentina Munoz was released near the Venezuelan border Monday evening 17 October, the country’s president gave effusive thanks to the Geneva-based International Red Cross (ICRC), which negotiated the child’s freedom. She and her mother were kidnapped [...]

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Shalit and 477 others head home: Israeli-Hamas swap underway (update)

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:16:21 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Palestinian envoy raises ire of Canadian gov’t Egyptian TV’s interview with Shalit shocks some as exploitation GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It is not being hailed as a gesture with implications for Middle East peace, but there is widespread relief over the release of Israeli prisoner Galid Shalit by Palestine’s Hamas after five years, and 477 Palestinians [...]

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Efforts to pull refugees out of Misrata hampered by battles (update)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:59:01 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Critically injured French journalist part of 935 rescued Wednesday from Misrata Update 17:35 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The IOM (International Organization for Migration) and the International Red Cross (ICRC) say the Red Star One, a ship that left Benghazi, in eastern Libya late Tuesday 26 April for Misrata to deliver medical supplies and pick up [...]

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Colombia landslide claims scores

Sean Ecker — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:55:12 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A deadly mudslide swept away at least 10 three-story buildings 5 December in the Bello district of Medellin. Red Cross officials say possibly hundreds may have lost their lives in the mudslide. Officials said seven people had been pulled out alive by the early evening and one body had been recovered, according to Bogotá newspaper, [...]

Geneva students help elderly on public transport

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:58:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Geneva Red Cross honoured the elderly Friday 1 October by sending 200 volunteers, including 100 students from the International School of Geneva, to bus and tram stops throughout the city, to help people over age 65 use public transport more easily. The goal was not to offer them a one-day [...]

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Calls to lower driving age to 16 in Switzerland

Sean Ecker — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:21:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The driving age in Switzerland should be reduced to age 16 under certain circumstances says the automobile association, the Touring Club Suisse. Younger drivers should be allowed to get behind the wheel if they are accompanied by an experienced driver and have already passed the theoretical exam, the grouping says, and [...]

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