Today, Red Cross Red Crescent Societies and countries worldwide mark World AIDS Day, using the theme Getting to Zero, which is the slogan of the Global AIDS Campaign ...
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.
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...
Throughout this autumn, in Addis Ababa, Nairobi and capitals across the world, the Heads of East African governments have committed to eradicating drought emergencies,
This year alone, we have witnessed disasters on an unprecedented scale - the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, devastating floods in Pakistan and Australia, ...
Parmi l’éventail toujours plus large des problèmes auxquels nous sommes confrontés, peu me hantent autant que l’un des maux les plus anciens et les plus persistants ...
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 ...
16 September 2011, Geneva - The Movement of the Red Cross Red Crescent is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Hakam Sibai, one of three first aiders who succumbed...
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 ...
“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
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.
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.
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...
La communauté internationale se réunit pour passer en revue les progrès accomplis et convenir des suites à donner aux efforts mondiaux de lutte contre le sida.
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.
Matthias Schmale, Under Secretary General for Development, International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent (IFRC). The International Federation of Red...
“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.
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.
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...
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 ...
La tuberculose fait 15 morts par heure. D’ici à 2015, plus de 10 millions de personnes succomberont à cette maladie qui est pourtant évitable et curable.
Les pénuries d’eau à travers le monde n’ont rien de nouveau, mais l’accès à l’eau et à des services d’assainissement améliorés est désormais un des plus gros défis ...
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...