The ICRC together with the VII Photo agency has launched a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of today’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. As part of the campaign, which marks the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross, the ICRC sent five photographers from VII to eight conflict-affected countries to examine up-close the suffering caused by war and violence.

An exhibition of the work is being shown in 40 countries. .

 

In August 2008 a conflict erupted between Georgian and Russian armed forces. At the time, the ICRC reported wide-scale human suffering and destruction of infrastructure. Today the situation for the victims has improved and relief assistance is focusing on more chronic humanitarian problems. And while the media spotlight has been on South Ossetia, families displaced by the 1992-1993 Abkhazia conflict continue to endure harsh conditions with little hope of ever going home.