AFGHANISTAN: ICRC has been active in Afghanistan since 1986; It visits 1,900 detainees, providing support to 12 major hospitals, and improved water and sanitation for 300,000 people.
Angola: ICRC there since 1975, focused on reuniting families separated by conflict.
Colombia: ICRC there since 1969. This year gave aid to 43,000 newly displaced persons.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC there since 1978. This year helped deliver 260,000 Red Cross messages, reunited 365 children with their families and provided clean water to over 6.5 million people.
Ethiopia: ICRC there since 1977.
Israel and Palestine: ICRC there since 1967. Dealing with effects of illegal Israeli settlements and West Bank security barrier and doing prison visits to thousands of detainees held by the Israeli authorities and hundreds detained by Palestinian Authority.
Russian Federation: ICRC there since 1992. Main concern is Chechnya and 100,000 displaced in the Caucasus region.
Serbia and Montenegro: ICRC since 1991 supporting families of missing persons.
Southern Caucasus: ICRC in Armenia and Azerbaijan since 1992, concerned with Nagorno Karabakh.
Sudan: ICRC there since 1978 and since Darfur last year. Sudan now its largest operation.
Uganda: ICRC scaled back presence after six staff members killed in April 2001. So far this year it has supported relief distributions to 140,000 people, visited detainees and sough permission to visit all security detainees held countrywide.