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Annual Report

The 2010 Annual Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross is an account of field activities conducted out of 80 delegations worldwide. The activities are part of the organization’s mandate to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and to promote respect for international humanitarian law.

The ICRC’s Annual Report 2010 describes the harm that armed conflicts inflict on populations around the world, and what the organization is doing to protect and assist them.

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Facts and Figures

In 2010:

  • More than 4.9 million people received aid in the form of food and over 4.7 million people received aid in the form of essential household and hygiene items.

  • The ICRC's water, sanitation and construction projects benefited more than 9.9 million people – the majority of whom were women and children.
  • Close to 5.2 million patients received treatment at ICRC-supported health facilities.
  • ICRC delegates visited around half a million detainees in 71 countries and five international courts.
  • The ICRC handled over 305,000 Red Cross messages, enabling family members separated by hostilities and other crises to restore contact. Around 51,000 of the messages were exchanged between detainees and their families.
  • The organization facilitated over 12,000 phone calls between family members, often between detainees and their relatives.