Jamila Hammami is mission head in Oman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).Sebastian Castelier, Oman’s humanitarian aid to Yemen also pragmatic, Al-Monitor, January 9, 2020. Accessed March 14, 2020.
Life Jamila Hammami was educated at Aix-Marseille University. She started working for the ICRC in 2002. In 2008 she called for Iraqi authorities to find the families of 62 Iraqi soldiers whose remains had been repatriated from Saudi Arabia.Saudi returns bodies of Iraqis killed in Gulf War, Reuters, April 3, 2008. Accessed March 14, 2020. Later that year she helped organize the ICRC-brokered exchange of remains of nearly 250 soldiers killed in the Iran–Iraq War.Red Cross brokers swap of Iranian and Iraqi war dead , The Daily Star, December 1, 2008. Accessed March 14, 2020. In 2010 and 2011 she was working in Kathmandu, providing interim relief to survivors of the Nepalese Civil War.Relatives of the missing struggle with legal void, social taboo, The New Humanitarian, December 29, 2010. Accessed March 14, 2020.Brendan Brady, The Ghosts of Nepal’s ‘Disappeared’, The Diplomat, March 26, 2011. Accessed March 14, 2020. In 2014-5 she headed the ICRC team in Tripoli, Lebanon, working with communities affected by armed violence spilling over from the Syrian civil war.Lebanon: Strengthening the resilience of communities affected by violence, ICRC, February 11, 2015. Accessed March 14, 2020.
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