Flooding, fires, buildings constructed not to code, people flocking to cities in search of work, and congested slums. These are just some of the urban risks facing a ...
“The IFRC is our vehicle to awaken the world of development to the needs and potential of people with disabilities,” said Special Olympics International Chairman Dr. ...
Shelter is one of the first priorities in any humanitarian intervention. Yet humanitarian organizations often struggle to provide shelter to communities affected by ...
The American Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross and Mexican Red Cross have established protocols for cooperation in order to streamline any additional humanitarian ...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) will work together to reduce the risk of ...
A new report from the World Bank concluding that a warmer world will ‘keep millions of people trapped in poverty’ provides a further wake-up call to the ...
Between 17-19 June, representatives from Red Cross National Societies in Central America came together to discuss a range of issues surrounding humanitarian work and t...
Torrential rains have cause massive floods in Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. Other countries in the region are on high alert.
How can educators engage with children and young adults to promote disaster risk reduction?
Both communities and governments have an important role to play in disaster risk reduction.
In many areas of the world, lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people are still living in the margins of society, shunned by their families and communities ...
أوسكار زولواغا يتذكر كيف التقى والصليب الأحمر في بلدته "كالي" في كولومبيا منذ زمن، فيقول: "لقد بدأت التطوع مع شباب الصليب الأحمر عام 1969. قمنا بعمل دورات على الإسعافا...
اسأل أي متخصص في الصحة العامة عن مثله الأعلى وفي الأغلب سيخبرك عن الدكتور جون سنو وأعماله. في عام 1854 قام الدكتور سنو بعمل مبتكر غير للأبد طريقة رؤيتنا للعالم. فعلى...
الفيضانات المفاجئة تقتل 46 شخصا على الأقل في الأرجنتين. 70.000 شخص يتضررون من موجة برد غير عادية في صربيا. المجاعات – نتيجة واضحة للعيان لتغير المناخ في شرق أفريقيا....
نشأت حركة الصليب الأحمر والهلال الأحمر في الأصل من أجل وضع حد لأهوال الحروب، سواء كان بالرعاية المباشرة للمتضررين أو بدعم سن وتطبيق القانون الدولي الإنساني. إلا أنه في...
"الناس يحتاجون المعلومات مثلما يحتاجون الماء والطعام والدواء والمأوى". هذا ما نص عليه تقرير عام 2005 عن الكوارث في العالم. إن التواصل مع المجتمعات المحلية والسكان...
المستقبل الصحي للحركة يعتمد على الإصغاء إلى أعضائها الشباب بقلم: دكتور ماسيمو بارا، نائب رئيس اللجنة الدائمة للصليب الأحمر والهلال الأحمر الدولي عبارة "شباب الصليب...
شكلت "هيئة اللوجستيات العالمية" وتشكل العمود الفقري اللوجستي الذي يدعم العمل الأساسي للاتحاد الدولي لجمعيات الصليب الأحمر والهلال الأحمر لأكثر من 90 عاما. وبالتأكيد تغ...
أول عملية إنعاش ناجحة سجلت قديما في العام 896 قبل الميلاد. وتم وصف طريقة التنفس من الفم إلى الفم في الكتابة الهيروغليفية للمايا. دعونا نمضي إلى المستقبل سريعا إلى 150...
Created to promote relief work in times of peace, the Empress Shôken Fund received many applications this year from Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies and is...
One of the ways in which communities can prepare for a disaster is to set up drills and simulations of how a disaster unfolds – be it flooding, earthquake or extreme ...
Mobile-enabled early warning systems are transforming the way humanitarian organizations deliver aid.
Each year, leaders from government, business, civil society and the arts gather in Davos, Switzerland to discuss the issues currently dominating the news agenda,...
لا تزال العديد من البلدان في الشرق الأوسط تحت وطأة العاصفة الحادة التي تسببت حتى الآن بمقتل العديد في المنطقة وزادت من معاناة اللاجئين السوريين في البلدان المجاورة....
Today is International Volunteer Day, where we celebrate and mark the amazing work that volunteers – both within and beyond the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement – do to...
Today is World Toilet Day. While toilets are not the easiest topic to discuss, 2.5 billion people worldwide – invariably the poor, underprivileged and disenfranchised ...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), in partnership with Swedish Red Cross and the World Food Programme, is convening a ...
قام الهلال الأحمر القطري بعمليات داخل البلاد وخارجها طيلة شهر رمضان المعظم.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) welcomes the release of the WHO Technical Working Group on oral cholera vaccine (OCV) ...
Since the beginning of 2011, violence in Syria has caused mass displacement within the country and across its borders into Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey.
By Afrhill Rances and Joe Cropp Red Cross societies in the Philippines and China are providing emergency relief to flood affected communities after triple typhoons swe...
A network of more than 20 representative institutions of global outbreak response experts meet in Geneva for two days to discuss how best to exploit the full ...
The international Red Cross Red Crescent Movement was yesterday awarded the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. The Prince of Asturias Awards...
كان الربيع العربي فترة متميزة بكل المعايير. فكان التغيير السمة الثابتة الوحيدة والشعب كان في قلب الحدث. وخلف الكواليس وبعيدا عن الأضواء، واصلت جمعيات الصليب الأحمر...
IFRC Secretary General discusses the auxiliary role's importance to National Societies and governments.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have today launched a new ...
“The secret to youth engagement and leadership is to start small and think big,” says Heather Fitzke, a 26-year-old, British Red Cross volunteer. Heather responded to...
Africa’s most pressing humanitarian and development challenges were top of the agenda at a high-level Ambassadorial event organized by the International Federation ...
The meteorological phenomenon known as La Niña, which brought first droughts to Paraguay, is causing problems in other parts of the region. Heavy rain fall over the ...
Eighty-one representatives from 41 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies from Europe gathered last week in Lozen, Bulgaria, for the 20th European Youth ...
The 8.7 earthquake that struck off the coast of the Indonesian Island of Sumatra on April 11 brought a sense of foreboding that the region might see a repeat of the ...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies will host the 2012 Fleet Forum Annual Conference, which will convene during 11-13 April at the ...
From May 9th-11th, Bekele Geleta, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies will Co-chair the first World Economic ...
If we go in search of those left in the shadows, we will find someone somewhere in a basement room with a needle and a spoon, trying to dull their pain.
Land Rover, in partnership with The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), has launched a 50-day, 8,000 mile trek from its factory ...
The plight of thousands of people continues in Europe where forecasters say that icy conditions are unlikely to improve before the end of this week.
The global picture about water and sanitation is stark. Today, 2.6 billion people are exposed to a variety of preventable diseases through poor access to basic ...
As world leaders gather in Davos, the Red Cross Red Crescent will be present to promote humanitarian values and the importance of development to the social and ...
In light of a worsening conflict situation in Somalia, including an air attack on a nutritional centre in the southern Somali town of Bardera on December 10th.
After three years of development the IFRC has produced a skills-based toolkit designed to help youth become agents of behavioural change
Effective aid must cross the relief-development boundaries and focus on communities as well as countries
Tuberculosis (TB) still kills around 1.4 million people each year, with one third of the world population being infected without necessarily ever falling ill.
Governments and international organizations have, for the first time, formally recognized that effective development depends on a willingness to mitigate the impact ...
Today is World AIDS Day. A day when individuals, civil society, governments and organisations such as the IFRC aim to do more, do better and reach further, for the ...
Despite enormous progress in global health, there are many remaining gaps in accessing health resources and services.
Katherine Roux The Presidents of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),...
في 7 نيسان/أبريل 2011، كان محمد مصطفى المصراتي، رجل إسعاف في الهلال الأحمر الليبي، يسافر مع سائق وطبيبين وممرض في سيارة إسعاف عليها علامة الهلال الأحمر بشكل واضح. وكان...
National Red Cross and Red Crescent societies must be granted access to the vulnerable migrants they seek to assist, the 31st International Conference has been told.
International Conference the importance of protecting, promoting and recognizing volunteerism.
Every day, 4,200 people die in violent circumstances – a figure that is, annually, equivilent to the population of Vienna.
A special awards ceremony at the 18th General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies honoured a select number of volunteers ...
As disasters become more frequent, governments will need to establish more effective laws to enable action by humanitarian organizations.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and The University of Manchester have announced plans to launch a postgraduate teaching ...
Magen David Adom in Israel and the Norwegian Red Cross build links with a joint training programme.
Flooding caused by two typhoons is affecting hundreds of thousands of people across South-East Asia, including in the Philippines, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Loas and Thailand.
How can technology be used to fight food insecurity in a region as large and diverse as east Africa?
The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement was well represented at the recent 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) held in Busan, the ...
Each year, National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world observe World First Aid Day.
On July 24-27, a unique and important event took place in Jerusalem. Six paramedics and supervisors from Magen David Adom in Israel (IMDA) were invited to attend the...
In everyday life, volunteers are the heart of the Red Cross Red Crescent movement. During a crisis, their knowledge and passion are vital
A Viet Nam Red Cross team has provided relief and financial assistance to more than 400 families affected by flash flooding in Nghe An Province on the country’s ...
The GAVI CSO Constituency today released the Civil Society Call to Action to Support the GAVI Alliance. The Call to Action – which calls on donors to commit to fully...
At the 64th World Health Assembly IFRC and MSF took part in a joint event to highlight the need for a balanced approach to global immunization.
By Linda Low in Geneva When most people talk about reducing the risk of disasters in a community, discussions quickly turn to earthquake proof buildings and...
By Linda Low in Geneva “In Haiti, the Red Cross Red Crescent network delivered 9,000 housing units enabling the local population to move back into their communities,”...
A joint statement by the presidents of the IFRC and ICRC
After disasters like Mount Merapi in Indonesia or Cyclone Giri in Myanmar, there are all too often many tragic stories of people who were injured or killed, and of ...
On 20 November, the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention of the Rights of the Child, in ...
Giovanni Zambello On 1 December, 2010, like every year, thousands of Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers throughout Europe gathered in streets, shopping centres,...
On 1 December, 2010, like every year, thousands of Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers throughout Europe gathered in streets, shopping centres, cinemas, schools, bar ...
Red Cross societies across Europe are working flat out to combat the effects of the current severe weather.
Chinese-born martial arts movie star and philanthropist Jet Li formally signed an agreement this week in Beijing to become the IFRC's first goodwill ambassador.
What roles are young people playing in their National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world? How do young people contribute to the International ...
European Red Cross Societies mobilized volunteers, staff and other resources to help people affected directly or indirectly by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull ...
Six months ago, beginning in the last week of September 2009, four nations across the Asia and Pacific region were devastated by emergencies that affected the lives ...
When the tsunami struck on Dec 26th 2004, millions of people watched in horror as the full extent of the worst natural disaster in living memory unfolded on their ...
One month ago, during a single week in late September, the Asia Pacific region was rocked by four emergencies that disrupted the lives of nearly nine million people ...
As the world hears news of a mounting death toll in the Asia Pacific region, questions are being asked about why more deaths could not have been prevented.
A major quake and tsunami in the Pacific tests the resolve of the Red Cross as it strives to respond simultaneously to three major disasters, one in the Pacific and ...
The search continues for hundreds of people who remain trapped in mountain villages cut off by mudslides and flooding caused by the heavy rains that have deluged ...
Responding to a disaster is not just about treating physical injuries - it is also about healing psychological wounds.
Superstition has led to the killing of more than 60 albinos in Burundi and Tanzania.
More than 7,000 volunteers in 10 West African countries have been involved in major multi-country synchronized vaccination campaigns aimed at immunizing children ...
Government officials and international organizations in Eastern Europe are warning of a dramatic increase in human trafficking as the recession begins to bite.
The South Asia region, home to half the world's poor, hosts an estimated 2.
Plans enacted in 2006 have enabled Red Cross societies in Southern Africa to quickly respond to cholera outbreaks.
Torrential rains carried by a series of depressions and storms have left a wake of devastation in Central America over the last three weeks.
Ten years ago, Hurricane Mitch changed the lives of millions of people.
The American Red Cross has thousands of staff on the ground in Texas and Louisiana, offering shelter, food, and comfort to the millions of people affected by ...
The Red Cross Red Crescent is helping thousands of people who have been affected by Hurricane Gustav’s path through Haiti and the Dominican Republic – and is gearing ...
Red Cross Red Crescent workshop helps colleagues share their knowledge on how best to protect and support those in disaster-prone areas.
The Georgian Red Cross Society (GRCS) has mobilized more than 1,000 volunteers across the country to bring emergency assistance to people displaced by the recent ...
The Red Cross remains on high alert as Tropical Storm Fay has dumped torrential rains on the island of Hispaniola, eastern and central Cuba, Jamaica and the northern ...
"Tens of thousands of civilians have been caught up in the armed conflict involving Georgian, South Ossetian and Russian forces.
"I've worked with the Red Cross for 40 years and no one I know has ever seen anything like this, nor have their parents nor their grandparents.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched its “Global Alliance on HIV” in the Americas just prior to the opening of the ...
The rainy season has begun in many countries across West and Central Africa.
The Solomon Islands Red Cross (SIRC) has been sharing its disaster response and recovery expertise with other Red Cross societies at a recent workshop in the Caribbean.
Mozambique has been affected by a cholera outbreak that hit several areas.
Southern Africa has been severely affected by heavy rains which started last month in parts of Zimbabwe and are now spreading to other countries including Mozambique ...
National Societies in Southern Africa and the International Federation’s zone office in Johannesburg were Wednesday braced for a new flood emergency involving at ...
Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and their volunteers have been significant contributors to the fight against measles throughout the world, especially ...
More than 650,000 people have lost their homes and some two hundred their lives in the worst floods in the history of Africa affecting large swathes of land all over ...
Climate change is likely to be aggravating the chronic food shortages in many parts of Eastern Africa.
Twice a week a plane lands at the airstrip on Tuvalu’s main atoll, Funafuti.
This fragile Miskito village at the end of a now barely-passable 25-kilometre gravel road that starts in Puerto Cabezas is almost the exact point – as near as it can ...
As Hurricane Felix tracks towards the Central American coastline, Red Cross Societies along the storm’s path are encouraging residents to find safe shelter and not ...
As the 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (8th ICAAP) draws to a close, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ...
Caribbean Red Cross Societies are supporting thousands of people affected by Hurricane Dean, distributing vital relief items, and helping communities take the first ...
As Hurricane Dean bears down on the Mexico-Belize border, Red Cross branches in the region are on maximum alert and standing by to provide assistance as needed.
The first hurricane of the Atlantic storm season, Dean – which started as a category 2 hurricane – lashed the islands of St Lucia, Martinique and Dominica on Friday ...
Severe flooding has affected tens of millions of people around the world in recent weeks and months.
The start of the 2007 typhoon season in South East Asia has been marked by torrential rains and heavy flooding in several countries, including Viet Nam, Indonesia, ...
Severe flooding has affected tens of millions of people around the world in recent weeks and months, including Bangladesh, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, ...
The increasing intensity and frequency of severe storms and extreme weather events – like the floods and heat waves currently affecting Africa, Asia and Europe – are ...
While parts of northern Europe are devastated by record flooding caused by torrential rains, countries in Central Europe suffocate under the highest temperatures ...
On a recent evening in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, seventeen International Federation staff and disaster management coordinators from the five Red Crescent ...
As governments, the United Nations and other organisations met to move forward the disaster risk reduction agenda in the Middle East/North Africa region, the ...
Each year, World Red Cross Red Crescent Day is celebrated across the globe on 8 May.
The Russian Red Cross programme to fight tuberculosis (TB) has been running in the town of Belgorod and the region since December 2002.
The elderly have lost the most in the transition from communism to capitalism.
Since the fall of communism, state institutions in Central Asia have struggled to cope with the thousands of children neglected and abandoned by their parents.
The Zambezi River which stretches from Angola to the Indian Ocean in Mozambique is threatening to displace thousands of families in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, ...
The Governing Board of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies meets on a regular basis to take strategic decisions concerning the ...
That reducing vulnerability and increasing capacities to face the risk of disaster is a responsibility for all was the message given by representatives of the ...
Throughout Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East youth volunteers are working to help other youths, save the environment, prevent the spread of HIV and even give ...
To the casual passer-by, the first-ever consultative workshop on community-based first aid (CBFA) in Asia-Pacific, held in Nepal in September 2006, may have looked ...
This was a very special year for European Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, because no less than three anniversaries were celebrated at the annual meeting of ...
Gordon, the sevenths tropical storm of the 2006 Caribbean Hurricane Season, developed from a tropical depression and became a tropical storm on September 11 at about ...
According to reports from the Bermuda Overseas Branch of the British Red Cross, as preparation measures, the airport, ports, Longbird Bridge (one of the connectors ...
The second Saturday of September traditionally marks World First Aid Day – an occasion for health professionals and relief agencies, like the Red Cross and Red ...
Ernesto is the first hurricane of the 2006 Caribbean hurricane season – active from 24 August to 1 September – which became a tropical storm as it headed deeper ...
Displaced Lebanese in Syria began packing their belongings as soon as the United Nations-sponsored cessation of hostilities went into effect at 08:00 local time on ...
In the evening of 11 August, the UN convoy, followed by hundreds of cars filled with civilians, made its way north, from Marjazoun in southern Lebanon, towards Rashaya.
Since July 12, tens of thousands of people fled hostilities in Lebanon and crossed the border into Syria, where they were sheltered in schools and social centres or ...
The Turkish Red Crescent Society, or Kizilay, has dispatched humanitarian aid to Palestinians in order to assist the victims of recent violence in the Middle East ...
Yvonne Kabagire, Rwanda Red Cross
Inez Joseph lives in Anse La Raye in St Lucia, a fishing village surrounded by three rivers and the sea.
One doesn’t have to go far from Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to see the effects of the drought smothering large parts of East Africa and threatening the lives and ...
“The rice sown is gone because of the rain.
With 26 tropical storms and 14 hurricanes, the 2005 hurricane season has been rated one of the most active and destructive in history.
Hurricane Stan may have physically disappeared but the considerable damage and uncertainty it left behind is still visible.
The plane left at 9.
Still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Stan, a number of countries in Central America including Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua and Cuba are bracing themselves for ...
Another can of air freshener is tossed into a growing pile amid broken bricks and bent steel.
There is not much left of the village of Shamlai at the end of the road up in the mountains from the town of Batagram in Pakistan.
Still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Ivan which ripped through the Caribbean last year, Jamaica, Haiti and the Cayman Islands have both been put on hurricane ...
Is this really where I arrived to six months ago? I hesitantly look around the park outside the Townhouse of Phuket.
As the world prepares to mark six months since the tsunami devastated many coastal areas of Asia, International Federation President Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro paid ...
For five days, representatives from National Red Cross Societies in Central America and the Caribbean, as well as from the International Federation of Red Cross and ...
National Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in South Asia have received a major boost with initial funding confirmed for the biggest International Federation AIDS ...
Risk reduction and health emergencies, as well as the need to strengthen the position of Central Asia’s national Red Crescent societies in their relationships with ...
The European Union promises action on trafficking.
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala after the first hurricane of the season smashed into Central America ...
Adesh Tripathee travelled from the highest country in the world to one of the lowest.
Thanks to an unprecedented partnership involving the Red Cross and Red Crescent, global measles deaths have fallen by 39 per cent since 1999, while the region with ...
It took about seven hours for the deadly wave to reach the Somali coast, from the moment it was caused by a massive earthquake under the sea near Indonesia, 5,000 km ...
In the months of August and September, North America and the Caribbean were pounded by four devastating hurricanes, which killed some 2,500 people and left over 300 ...
In Tashkent province, Uzbekistan, a bus travelling from Tajikistan to Russia aroused the suspicion of customs officers and, unhappy with the driver's answers, they ...
Climate predictions indicate that the frequency and severity of extreme weather events will increase in years to come.
The waterlevel of the swollen rivers in South Asia has returned back to normal, after early monsoon rains in the region caused one of the most devastating floods in ...
The Red Cross Red Crescent’s role in tackling major public health issues has again been recognised, with the Stop TB partnership nominating the International ...
The Director of the UN’s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Geneva recently called for a “culture of prevention” in tackling disasters.
You are at sea, and you see an SOS signal from another boat.
Youth, the role they play in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the problems they face was the focus of the 9th Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent ...
This year’s enlargement of the European Union (EU) - its biggest ever - is a historic moment and a strategic success.
As the world marked World Water Day on 22 March, the countries of Southern Africa were bracing themselves for possible floods.
The largest regular meeting of Red Crescent and Red Cross Societies in the Middle East and North Africa started its deliberations in Bahrain on 15 March after being ...
International efforts to dramatically reduce measles deaths in Africa have reached a critical juncture.
Red Cross staff and volunteers have been active throughout the Pacific this week, responding to the damage wrought by Cyclone Heta.
A healthy-looking young man sits surrounded by a serene-looking group; an adult couple have their hands on the young man’s shoulders, while kneeling in front of him, ...
“What unites 15 million southern Africans, 2 million Polish children, 530,000 Latvian pensioners and a thousand schoolchildren from the Lithuanian district of Kazlu ...
A major dilemma highlighted in this year’s World Disasters Report is the increasing trend for donors to channel humanitarian aid towards emergencies and crises that ...
There is an old African saying that parents should not give their children a name until measles has passed through their village, such was the toll it took.
On World Food Day this year, ten Red Cross Societies in Central Europe are pooling their efforts to bring world attention to the plight of millions of poor and ...
Public health experts gather in Cape Town this week for a landmark meeting aimed at building on the advances made over the past three years in reducing measles mortality.
The International Federation today urged governments to take measures to increase public awareness of the exploitation faced by victims of people trafficking.
When David Mukasa boarded a Geneva-bound plane at Uganda’s Entebbe airport on 29 July, he was very much aware of the seriousness of his mission.
Red Cross volunteers from Portugal, France, Spain, and Italy have been involved in helping their respective authorities in managing the humanitarian crisis arising ...
Around 30 per cent of Swaziland’s population will need humanitarian aid this year, even more than in 2002 when famine threatened Southern Africa.
A major Red Cross campaign gets underway today in the high Andes of Peru to bring assistance to communities suffering from a severe cold spell which has led to the ...
"We lost everything.
From rescuing stranded people by boat to providing water purification tablets or high protein biscuits, Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers have been among the ...
“You can live with HIV, but you can’t live with the stigma that surrounds it,” said one anonymous contributor to the pre-cursor of the global e-forum that is being ...
A meeting in Brisbane of 14 national Red Cross Societies in the Pacific has taken an important step towards the implementation of an action plan agreed last November ...
African heads of state and government have gathered in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, for the second summit of the African Union (AU), which was launched one year ...
Over one million people have been affected by monsoon season floods and landslides in Nepal, India and Bangladesh, and Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers have ...
Youth representatives from 44 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have gathered at the Italian Red Cross Training Centre in Jesolo Lido, 40 km from Venice ...
Behind the triumphant parade of ten European countries into the European Union lie many concerns.
More than a million people affected by hunger and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa will have been helped by the region’s national Red Cross societies when a one-year ...
The Atlantic hurricane season officially started on 1 June, and meteorological experts are predicting that the Caribbean and Central America could witness above ...
In a bid to strengthen and support the relief response capacity of Red Cross Societies in the West African region, the International Federation has brought together ...
Calamities, as last year’s floods in central Europe proved, can transcend borders.
Red Cross National Societies from Central and Eastern Europe will face new challenges and opportunities when their countries join the European Union (EU) in May 2004 ...
A four-day conference aimed at mapping the future direction of the Red Cross movement in the Americas has closed in Santiago de Chile, by approving two documents on ...
The global SARS outbreak is having an impact on Red Cross and Red Crescent activities in affected countries.
As the Pacific cyclone season winds down, Red Cross disaster preparedness programmes have again shown their worth in the region.
The innovative regional response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Americas during the last decade has been based on the active participation of the affected communities.
To date, at least 98 people have died around the world from the atypical pneumonia called “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) with China and the Special ...
After 18 months of work, the Measles Initiative, an alliance of international public health organizations including the International Federation, says it is on track ...
OVER the last five years, Indonesia has seen a sharp rise in HIV prevalence.
A bleak and dismal picture of what the future could hold for 60 million people living in southern Africa was outlined this week in a joint statement from the world's ...
The coldest winter in South Asia for decades has claimed the lives of more than 1,600 people, most of them poor and homeless, in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
The Israeli humanitarian organisation, Magen David Adom (MDA), has responded to Sunday evening's double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, in which 23 people died and more ...
The International Federation has used a United Nations conference on population issues in Asia and the Pacific to promote its recently adopted regional priorities as ...
The recent upsurge in fighting in Côte d'Ivoire has increased the need for an urgent response to humanitarian needs in neighbouring countries.
To the sound of bachata and merengue music, more than 50 youth volunteers from the Dominican Red Cross are cheerfully packing 250,000 condoms donated by the ...
'It is upon action that we are judged.
The Red Cross and Red Crescent has been calling on governments in the Asia-Pacific region to do more to ratify existing international conventions seeking to protect ...
A myriad of colours and music set the tone for the formal opening of the 6th Regional Asia-Pacific Red Cross Red Crescent Conference, which brings together some 150 ...
Some 250 delegates of 49 National Societies are attending the 6th Regional Asia-Pacific Red Cross Red Crescent Conference, which gets under way in the Philippine ...
A total of four million dollars has been committed by the International Federation and the OPEC Fund for International Development in what is being seen as the start ...
The International Federation has given its support to an emergency appeal to donors for 10 million euros to replenish a stockpile of vaccines for Africa's ...
Measles is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable death among children in Africa.
- What's the matter? Don't you love me? - Of course I love you, my darling, but you promised not to hurt me.
In a show of support for the National Red Cross Societies struggling to cope with a growing food crisis across southern Africa, the secretary general of the ...
Ola is 14.
The International Federation has joined forces with the United Nations Environment Programme in a bid to reduce the impact of natural disasters on the lives of ...
A full three years after the devastating earthquake that struck Taiwan in the early hours of 21 September 1999 which left 2,368 people dead, nearly 8,000 seriously ...
Alarmingly high rates of HIV/AIDS infection in Africa are pushing governments throughout the continent to declare national disasters.
On receiving her family kit, 60-year old Aruna looked slightly bemused.
Two states in Myanmar are experiencing their worst floods in living memory.
Taking up his appointment to the board of GAVI, 43-year-old Abbas Gullet, Secretary General of the Kenya Red Cross for the past 19 months, says one of his biggest ...
Speaking at a side event on Community Involvement and Volunteering in Sustainable Development co-hosted by the International Federation and United Nations Volunteers ...
Humanitarian issues including tracing missing people and home visits of Japanese spouses living in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK), were among the ...
More than 300 Norwegian Red Cross volunteers have worked 5,000 hours in the past two weeks to ensure that trucks donated by the Norwegian defence forces are prepared ...
Incessant rains and accompanying landslides have claimed some 400 lives so far across the South Asia region with many more people still missing.
Thanks to their immediate action on site, Central African Red Cross volunteers were able to rescue three people from the wreckage of a cargo plane that crashed at ...
One year into her latest challenge, Esther Okwanga, the first and only African regional delegate for volunteering, says that the most important lesson she has learnt ...
The first priority for the newly established South Asia Red Cross and Red Crescent Network on HIV/AIDS (SARNHA) will be peer education for youth.
Following an assessment of needs in three of the most drought-affected countries in southern Africa, the Federation today launched an appeal for 6.
Representatives of the eight central African Red Cross Societies met in Cameroon last week to discuss measures to be taken against outbreaks of Ebola and meningitis.
The international community must redouble its efforts to tackle intolerance and discrimination at both global and local levels, the UN Human Rights Commission was ...
Water is often the most pressing issue on the humanitarian agenda in disaster situations, said the world's largest disaster response network, the International ...
At the end of the first year of the Measles Initiative - an inter-agency immunization drive throughout sub-Saharan Africa inspired early last year by the American ...
Agency workers from international and local NGOs as well as UN agencies in the west African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are reportedly the most ...
The Gulf of Fonseca pilot project aims to mobilize volunteers in Red Cross branches to form partnerships with vulnerable communities, strengthen public health ...
"This is not the end.
Tay first suspected she was HIV positive when her husband of three years fell ill in 1996 and died a month later.
The International Federation, the world's largest humanitarian network with some 20 million active volunteers world-wide, marked the end of the first ever UN ...
The tragic loss of life since the outbreak of hostilities in Israel and the Autonomous/Occupied Territories, in September 2000, has now reached more than 1,000 ...
The Red Cross and Red Crescent in West Africa laid out their anti-AIDS agenda in no uncertain terms on World AIDS Day, with youth and other volunteers participating ...
The enduring disaster in sub-Saharan Africa looms large over another World AIDS Day.
The International Federation has identified the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS as a leading priority.
Drivers in West Africa are well used to hearing a tap on their door when they stop at traffic lights.
The floods that struck one of the major barley producing areas of the Tibetan Plateau in August 2000, were the worst in living memory in the region.
Poor nutrition among Central European children is of growing concern to the Red Cross.
To mark European First Aid Day, National Societies organized first aid campaigns to raise public awareness of first aid and to inform the general public about simple ...
Joe Lowry in Kiev
At least 3,500 people have died in the worst outbreak of meningoccal meningitis to sweep sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade.
Nearly a decade and a half after the world's worst nuclear disaster, millions of people in the three affected countries - Belarus, Russia and Ukraine - continue to ...
Tuberculosis is increasing in Central Asia at an alarming rate.
"When you see young men and women wasting away to their death, leaving behind traumatized children and desperate grandparents, you know something must be done now.