The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our Sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
ITALY: Italian Red Cross officials on the tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa are calling for urgent action as the migrant and refugee situation becomes critical. Over 2,000 people have arrived in the past 2 days, swelling the migrant population to 5,500.
LIBERIA: Buutuo is a village in northern Liberia, usually home to around 1,700 people. As rebels swept through the villages across the border, the Ivorian population in Buutuo swelled to 30,000. As a result of the sudden influx of refugees, the IFRC has worked with the Liberian Red Cross to set up an emergency water treatment plant. It now provides up to 75,000 litres of clean drinking water a day.
LIBYA: Following ICRC standard procedures, delegates registered 50 people held in a military facility and talked to them in private in order to check on their treatment and conditions of detention. The ICRC is pursuing its efforts to visit everyone who has been detained, by either party to the conflict.
GLOSSARY:
ICRC = International Committee of the Red Cross
IFRC = International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies