Our World at War

150th anniversary, the International Committee of the Red Cross asks five great photojournalists to document eight conflicts where the group's work remains vital VII photographers
Antonin Kratochvil / ICRC / VII

Georgia
Teams of villagers unload provisions to be distributed according to lists drawn up by local village committees favoring the most vulnerable. In the period after the 2008 confrontation with Russia, the ICRC has distributed food and household items to nearly 20,000 people in 27 Georgian villages bordering on South Ossetia.

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