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24/04/2012
An International Committee of the Red Cross employee abducted in Yemen
As he was heading towards Hudaya's airport, port city in West Yemen, a humanitarian worker, whose name remains unknown, was abducted two days ago. The two Yemeni drivers of this International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) employee were released a few hours after the rapt.

Yemen is nowadays considered as a "risky" country, according to the French Ministry for European and Foreign affairs. For the past 15 years, more than 200 abductions of foreigners were reported on this territory.






12/04/2012
New technologies in to serve humanitarian action
In a special focus on innovation and new technologies, Anne-Sophie David, journalist for the New Economist, writes on MISSING.NET, research engine for missing people. This tool, conceived by the Red Helmets Foundation, is devoted  to be used after natural disasters occur. Excerpts of the article.





30/03/2012
Support the Red Helmets Foundation: it's free and takes only a few clicks on Mailforgood !
On the 29th of March, the Red Helmets Foundation joigned the Mailforgood non-profit community. On this special social network, one can back up all kinds of associations, choosing either to adopt a commiting email signature or watching adds and so on...

Thanks to Mailforgood, Internet users may now discover the beauty and diversity of the French associative landscape. Solidarity is made possible within a few clicks: you can support associations in a few minutes and for free. This is what the motto of this platform stands for: "every single act matters, every action leads to others".

 







06/03/2012
Natural disasters cost 380 billion dollars to the world economy in 2011
A figure that breaks the record. Natural disasters cost 380 billion dollars to the world economy in 2011, announced on the 5th of March the special representative of the UN Secretary General for natural disasters prevention. The Japanese earthquake, of its own, and the tsunami and the nuclear incident that followed, provoked damages evaluated at 2010 billion dollars by the UN. 

This total amount is the "minimum" evaluated and overtakes the 2005 last record of 75%, the year when the hurricane Katrina laid waste to the United States, specified the UN representative, Margareta Wahlström.

 







17/01/2012
The Red Helmets Foundation completes her digital device to enhance citizens' solidarity
The Red Helmets Foundation launched those last days the French Amber Alert on Windows Phone 7. The mobile apps are now available on all platforms, which completes the digital device put in place to enhance citizens' solidarity. From now on, 90% of smartphones' users may be alerted when the Amber Alert is launched.

Convinced of the importance of new technologies to help victims, Nicole  Guedj committed herself to the creation of the ‘kidnapping e-@lert’ on  the Internet, in May 2009, in partnership with Orange, Free, SFR







26/10/2011
After Sunday's violent quake, Turkey goes on trying to save lives, while the death toll rises and rises
Since 1999 and Imzit earthquake, measuring 7.6, Turkey has not experienced such a catastrophe. However, in this seismic area formed by the meeting of several tectonic plates, earthquakes are quite usual and the population is well-prepared to them. Unfortunately, building security norms are too less followed, hence the significant damages.

 

The quake, measuring 7.2, hit the eastern part of Turkey on Sunday. It devastated Van’s area, and the death and material tolls don’t stop rising. Already 459 people are reported dead, 1.350 injured. And it is still impossible to measure how many are missing.

 







19/10/2011
Death of the French hostage Marie Dedieu
She was used to call it her "small paradise". Marie Dedieu, a 66-years-old French woman, settled in Lamu's archipelago, in Kenya, about 15 years ago. This is the very place where she was kidnapped on the 30th of September 2011 by an armed commando. Whereas the French Ministry of Foreign affairs announced her death this morning, the Red Helmets Foundation set on paying tribute to this committed woman's great courage.

 






14/09/2011
The blogosphere questions Ban Ki-moon
Yesterday, the 66th General Assembly opened at United Nations Headquarters. On this occasion, internet users were invited to get in touch with Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, via social networks. They were more than 5,000 to ask questions on Facebook, Twitter and Weibo.    

In live from New York, the Secretary-General answered a dozen questions, and reasserted UN principles (solidarity, peace-keeping, etc.) « Creating an organization that would be more efficient and effective is our big challenge and our main goal » he added.







07/06/2011
The G8 Youth Summit supports the Red Helmets
  The G8 Youth Summit delegates, gathered in Paris last week, support the creation of Red Helmets at the UN  

 






26/10/2010
TV5 Monde invites Nicole Guedj to the show "Francophonie & Solidarité"
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Paris, October 22th  (TV5 Monde) - Nicole Guedj was invited to the show "Francophonie & Solidarité", on TV5 Monde. The debate denounced the sanitary emergency in Haïti ten months after the terrible eathquake. The President of the Foundation calls again for the creation of a Red Helmets force at the UN, as a necessary step to a new humanitarian governance.  

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