Humanitarian aid ICRC has to give up 2900 full-time positions worldwide

The International Committee of the Red Cross has been forced to cut 2,900 full-time positions due to a 17% reduction in its budget for 2026, Keystone-SDA has learned. Around 200 people at the Geneva headquarters will be affected.

Keystone-SDA

21.11.2025, 11:52

SDA

The assembly confirmed this plan on Thursday in Geneva, as the Swiss president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, told Keystone-SDA on Friday. The focus is on maintaining activities as far as possible.

It is impossible to predict the number of redundancies, as the situation is very volatile. A third of the volume could be absorbed by voluntary departures and the elimination of positions that have not yet been filled.