ICRC

During his 41-year career, photojournalist Tom Stoddart witnessed and documented the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Nelson Mandela, wars in Lebanon, the former Yugoslavia and Iraq and the HIV/AIDS catastrophe in Africa. 

Earlier this year, Mr. Stoddart, a Reportage by Getty Images staff photographer, travelled to South Sudan with the ICRC to document the plight of refugees who had fled fighting in Sudan.

One of the outcomes of that mission was Perspectives, a photo exhibit held at the London Olympics last summer that was viewed by over 250,000 people. Another is Into The Earth, an original Intercross production.

On his last day on the job, outgoing head of delegation Reto Stocker warned today in Kabul about the worsening humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, where the future is more uncertain than ever for civilians who continue to bear the brunt of the violence.

Mr. Stocker headed our Afghanistan delegation from 2005 to early October 2012, a key period in an armed conflict that has affected tens of thousands of Afghans and continues to define humanitarian action in the post 9/11 era.  

Mr. Stocker was in Washington last week for a last round of meetings with US government officials at the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the National Security Council and the US Congress. After seven years in the field, he leaves Afghanistan deeply worried about the future of the country.