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Breaking the growing spiral of HIV and AIDS in Europe and Central Asia
The Horn of Africa deserves our commitment even when the drought has passed
Weather extremes and disaster: betting with the odds
Building resilience to drought is key to reducing dependence on food aid
Why the world’s youth are key to reducing the impact of disasters
A world of hunger amid plenty
Prevention is an urgent priority in tackling the global epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases
Red Cross Red Crescent Movement deplores the death of a Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteer and calls for better protection of volunteers and humanitarian workers
Don’t blame it on the rain
Preparing for Disasters: Our Collective Responsibilities
Horn of Africa: A letter from Turkana, northern Kenya
The birth of a new nation poses challenges for internal and international partnerships
Politics, war, migration: the anatomy of a humanitarian crisis
AIDS and human rights: a test of a humane society
Early warning, delayed response?
Mediterranean tragedies highlight the need to safeguard the rights and requirements of migrants
Disasters are not a department: to reduce risk, we must empower communities
Humanitarian work and technological disasters
Malaria: Real progress through real partnership
A challenge to the imagination, an appeal to the conscience
Towards a world free of tuberculosis
The world’s water woes and the urban divide
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2011
22 November 2011
The Horn of Africa deserves our commitment even when the drought has passed
Throughout October and into November, good rains have reached much of the arid lands of the Horn of Africa, and it is now possible to talk about the end of the drought.
18 November 2011
Weather extremes and disaster: betting with the odds
Statement from Bekele Geleta, Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Poker players like to say that if you 'bet with the...
14 October 2011
Building resilience to drought is key to reducing dependence on food aid
Throughout this autumn, in Addis Ababa, Nairobi and capitals across the world, the Heads of East African governments have committed to eradicating drought emergencies,
13 October 2011
Why the world’s youth are key to reducing the impact of disasters
This year alone, we have witnessed disasters on an unprecedented scale - the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, devastating floods in Pakistan and Australia, ...
22 September 2011
A world of hunger amid plenty
Among the ever-widening range of critical issues facing us today, few keep me awake at night more than one of the oldest and most persistent: hunger.
19 September 2011
Prevention is an urgent priority in tackling the global epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases
With the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, infectious diseases and their impact on humankind have become a major preoccupation for the public, governments ...
7 August 2011
Don’t blame it on the rain
Is the Horn of Africa facing the worst drought in sixty years? Perhaps. Yet, in recent decades, many things have changed in the region, and the underlying causes of ...
27 July 2011
Preparing for Disasters: Our Collective Responsibilities
“It’s not enough to respond to disasters, we must reduce their impact and get people out of harm’s way” says Nilofar Bakhtiar, Chairperson, Pakistan Red Crescent Society
26 July 2011
Horn of Africa: A letter from Turkana, northern Kenya
Aid agencies typically use malnutrition rates of 15 per cent to define an emergency. In parts of Turkana in Northern Kenya, the rates are 37 per cent.
8 July 2011
The birth of a new nation poses challenges for internal and international partnerships
We are on the verge of seeing the birth of a new African nation, one that will have emerged through the will of its people.
5 July 2011
Politics, war, migration: the anatomy of a humanitarian crisis
By Alexander Matheou Another drought has hit the Horn of Africa, but we need to look beyond the lack of rain to find the reasons why these long, dry seasons become...
9 June 2011
AIDS and human rights: a test of a humane society
The international community meets this month to review progress and agree how to continue to tackle the global AIDS response.
3 June 2011
Early warning, delayed response?
Is providing food during a drought always the right course of action? It’s a familiar question to humanitarians the world over, and there’s no clear answer.
13 May 2011
Mediterranean tragedies highlight the need to safeguard the rights and requirements of migrants
Matthias Schmale, Under Secretary General for Development, International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent (IFRC). The International Federation of Red...
10 May 2011
Disasters are not a department: to reduce risk, we must empower communities
“Do something!” This simple message is the first one that governments hear when terrible events such as the earthquakes in Japan and Haiti appear in the news.
22 April 2011
Humanitarian work and technological disasters
For many years, it was said that the next Chernobyl would be Chernobyl. The creaking sarcophagus seemed to be the world’s biggest risk of a civilian nuclear accident.
21 April 2011
Malaria: Real progress through real partnership
By Bekele Geleta, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) The global community has made real progress in the...
14 April 2011
A challenge to the imagination, an appeal to the conscience
On 11 March, a massive earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, struck Japan’s Sanriku coast. Then came the tsunami, cresting at more than 38 metres high and ...
23 March 2011
Towards a world free of tuberculosis
Tuberculosis kills 15 people every hour. Between now and 2015, more than 10 million people will die from a disease that is both preventable and curable.
22 March 2011
The world’s water woes and the urban divide
Water shortages in the world are nothing new, but access to water and improved sanitation has now become one of the biggest challenges for urban settings where 50 ...
12 January 2011
Haiti – paving the road to a better future
Bekele Geleta, Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies In Haiti today, one year after a deadly quake struck, as many as 1...