Press Release: Red Cross: ‘Life in Syria after years of conflict has become very difficult’

Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), met on 26/27 May 2015 the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee and the president Martin Schulz.

Mr Maurer showed that millions of people were on the run in places such as Syria and Nigeria due to the rise of violent extremism, many of them receiving essential aid from the ICRC.

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