ICRC SALLOUM FACT SHEET THE ICRC WORKS AS A The ICRC is present at the border port since March 2011. NEUTRAL INTERMEDIARY From the beginning of its presence until the end of June AND IN A 2011, the following has been done: CONFIDENTIAL MANNER 1. Assistance / Cooperation with Egyptian Red Crescent - more than 80’700 breakfast meals have been provided to the stranded people (distribution by the ERC) - 38’000 bottles of water distributed (prior to installation NEUTRAL INTERMEDIARY of UNICEF water tanks); Neutral, independent and impartial humanitarian action in 2. Facilitation of contacts with embassies/travel ICRC situations of armed conflict and internal violence is at the documents heart of the ICRC’s mandate and a fundamental part of its - pictures and personal data forwarded to embassies identity. The ICRC seeks dialogue with all actors involved in a for travel documents (done in coordination with IOM): given situation of armed conflict or internal violence as well 3227 International Committee of the Red Cross as with the people suffering the consequences to gain their 3. Family links / Tracing of lost family members acceptance and respect. This approach generally gives us the - Phone services to (in cooperation with ERC) widest possible access both to the victims of the violence and re-establish family links: 6064calls OPERATIONS IN to the actors involved. It also helps to ensure the safety of our maintain family links: 4814 calls staff. In this way, we are able to reach people on all sides of - Registration of unaccompanied minors and searching the frontlines in conflict areas around the world in order to for their family members SALLOUM, facilitate the delivery of humanitarian services to the victims - Sharing of information on missing persons with the of conflicts. ICRC teams in Libya and elsewhere BORDER OF EGYPT CONFIDENTIALITY 4. Support to ICRC action in Libya - Ensuring smooth passage of humanitarian goods across WITH LIBYA Confidentiality is an essential tool, enabling the ICRC to help the border people affected by insecurity, violence and armed conflict. It means that ICRC does not share sensitive information with For more information, please contact: any outside party and fosters a direct, bilateral dialogue with SALLOUM: the concerned persons. ICRC delegates at the telephone point CAIRO DELEGATION: 33 Road 106, 11431 Hadayek Maadi – Cairo. Telephone: (02) 252 815 40 – (02) 252 815 41 Website: www.icrc.org 0158/004. 08/2011. 500 I N B R I E F LIBYA CRISIS – ICRC operations at the Border Crossing in Salloum Discover the ICRC The ICRC is an impartial, humanitarian, neutral, independent organization having a sole objective to assist victims of armed conflicts and other situations of violence. Outside of conflict situations, the ICRC can offer its humanitarian services and ICRC ICRC expertise on the basis of its right of initiative, as enshrined in the Statutes of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Main services provided in Salloum: • Facilitation of issuance of Laisser-Passer – upon At present, the ICRC works in more than 80 countries in the request of those people who wish to return to their world. The ICRC has been in Egypt, with some interruptions, 1. Restoring Family Links and Protection of civilians country of origin but are no longer in possession of since the beginning of the Second World War. • ICRC, in cooperation with Egyptian Red Crescent, valid travel documents, the ICRC takes their pictures provides phone calls for all those who need to re- and personal data and forwards them to the concerned ICRC Mission in Egypt establish or maintain family links, after the contacts Embassies in order to fasten the process of repatriation. Cairo delegation works primarily as a regional centre to have been lost due to the conflict in Libya. • Individual follow-up of vulnerable categories of promote the national implementation of International • ICRC offers the service of tracing of lost family people, such as unaccompanied minors, female headed Humanitarian Law (IHL) and its incorporation into military members due to the current conflict in Libya: the households etc. training and academic curricula in Egypt and elsewhere in information on missing family members obtained in • Exchange of Red Cross / Red Crescent Messages the Arab world. The Cairo-based regional legal advisory, private interviews with enquirers is shared with the between people currently stranded in Salloum and communication and documentation centre, working in ICRC offices in the country of conflict or in other affected their family members in war zones (refugees, displaced, close cooperation with the League of Arab States, plays an countries in order to look for the persons who have lost detainees and others) when communication means are important role in this process. The ICRC supports the work of contact with their family members currently in Salloum not available. the Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC). or elsewhere in Egypt. • ICRC issues travel documents (upon request from ICRC in Cairo also supports Re-establishment of Family Links embassies) for persons who have been accepted by a (RFL) in favor of refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt and for third country for asylum and are lacking proper identity Egyptians with relatives in a war zone. documents. 2. Assistance • ICRC assists in family reunifications in coordination • In close partnership with Egyptian Red Crescent, with the United Nations Agencies or NGOs. ICRC provides breakfast for all stranded civilians at the border (distributed by the Egyptian Red Crescent)..