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| Humanitarian
logistics software being designed for Red Cross Red Crescent San Francisco / Geneva, 22 May 2002 |
The world's largest humanitarian network, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, is collaborating with the renowned US-based Fritz Institute in the design of a state-of-the-art, Web-based humanitarian logistics software. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Increased
collaboration on health between International Federation and PAHO Geneva, 15 May 2002 |
In order to increase their collaboration on health programmes, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross Red Crescent to assist 125,000 Kenya flood victims Nairobi / Geneva, 13 May 2002 |
Following heavy rains, floods and landslides which have left more than 30 people dead and tens of thousands displaced, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is launching an appeal for 1.7 million Swiss francs (1.04 million US$) to enable the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) to assist 125,000 people. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Joint
message for May 8 - from the Presidents of the International Federation
and the ICRC Geneva, 8 May 2002 |
A
message to mark World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day from Jakob Kellenberger,
President of the ICRC and Juan Manuel Suárez Del Toro Rivero,
President of the International Federation |
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| 500,000
new borns and 500,000 injecting drug users infected with HIV yearly
due to stigma, says Red Cross Red Crescent campaign Geneva, 8 May 2002 |
Stigma and discrimination are fuelling the HIV/AIDS epidemic worldwide, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies which today is using World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (May 8) to launch a global campaign against HIV/AIDS related discrimination. There are an estimated 40 million people living with HIV. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Health
care for victims of violence in Palestinian territories Geneva, 6 May 2002 |
Following the massive destruction of homes and infrastructure caused by the recent military actions in the Palestinian Autonomous and Occupied Territories, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is launching an appeal for 1.8 million Swiss francs, to assist victims of violence in the West Bank and Gaza. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Federation
to target aids-affected as food crisis worsens in southern Africa
Geneva, 2 May 2002 |
Following an assessment of needs in three of the most drought-affected countries in southern Africa, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies today is launching an appeal for Swiss francs 6.8 million to provide support to 450,000 people in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe over the next twelve months. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross and Red Crescent reaches into Europe's shadows Geneva, 18 April 2002 |
Faced with growing human abuse and vulnerability in what the Red Cross and Red Crescent defined today as "the shadowlands" of Europe, the world's largest humanitarian network has endorsed a regional strategy on migration and health to reach millions of people deprived of care and social justice. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross appeal after Sangatte death Geneva, 17 April 2002 |
European Red Cross Societies today expressed sorrow at the death on Monday of a 25-year-old Kurdish man at the French Red Cross centre for migrants at Sangatte, in northern France. Ali Sharif died in a violent incident in which two other young Kurds were injured. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross warns of deadly combination of HIV and tuberculosis Geneva, 15 April 2002 |
The growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS is not only consuming tens of millions of lives; it is also diminishing the chances of controlling tuberculosis (TB), another deadly disease which threatens millions of lives around the world, warns the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Legal
or not - migrants need help Geneva, 12 April 2002 |
Red Cross and Red Crescent representatives from some 50 European nations will produce a concrete action plan to assist vulnerable migrants who have no international legal protection, at the 6th European Regional Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference, which opens in Berlin on April 14. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Federation
mission to Middle East calls for access to sick and injured Geneva, 10 April 2002 |
The President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro, and the Secretary General, Didier J. Cherpitel, today visited Israel and the Occupied Territories to express the organisation's solidarity with the staff and volunteers of both the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and its Israeli counterpart, Magen David Adom (MDA). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vulnerable
groups threatened in Argentina as southern winter approaches Geneva, 10 April 2002 |
More than 15 million people are now estimated to be living in poverty in Argentina and many of the traditional support structures for the poor such as communal soup kitchens have disappeared, according to an appeal launched today by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies seeking 1.8 million Swiss francs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The
forgotten people of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are the elderly, says Red
Cross Red Crescent Geneva/ Madrid, 4 April 2002 |
As aid agencies and non-governmental organisations gather in Madrid for the opening of the World Assembly on Ageing (the first in twenty years), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies today said that the global HIV/AIDS pandemic was having a profound effect on the older generation worldwide. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Federation
president calls for fight against discrimination to top international
agenda Geneva, 3 April 2002 |
The international community must redouble its efforts to tackle intolerance and discrimination at both global and local levels, the UN Human Rights Commission was told today by Juan Manuel Suarez del Toro Rivero, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Middle
East: A solemn appeal by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Geneva, 2 April 2002 |
Over the past few days and in response to the worsening situation, International Red Cross delegates and Palestine Red Crescent Society volunteers attempted to cater for the most pressing humanitarian needs in the West Bank. However, the ICRC and the International Federation have cause to regret the frequent and often serious instances in which medical personnel were prevented from performing their life saving duties. The most basic humanitarian precondition in a situation of violence, is that all medical staff and volunteers be allowed to function unmolested. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Among
the ruins - Afghan Red Crescent emergency medical unit deployed Geneva, 27 March 2002 |
An Afghan Red Crescent Emergency Medical Unit is now fully operational serving the injured in the earthquake zone of Nahrin in Baghlan Province of northern Afghanistan. Local Red Crescent volunteers are engaged in search and rescue attempts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Crescent responds to Afghan quake Geneva, 26 March 2002 |
The Afghan Red Crescent Society is sending an emergency medical team into the Nahrin district of Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan following a series of earthquakes overnight and a stock of relief items is being made available for dispatch with a UN convoy due to leave Mazar-i-Sharif later today. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Water
- "a blessing and a curse" Geneva, 21 March 2002 |
Water is often the most pressing issue on the humanitarian agenda in disaster situations, said the world's largest disaster response network, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in a statement to mark World Water Day (March 22). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Second
Palestine Red Crescent paramedic killed in a week Geneva, 8 March 2002 |
A Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedic, 40-year-old Ibrahim Assad was killed in his ambulance in Tulkarem, in the northern part of the West Bank last night, by Israeli army fire, as he was responding to an emergency call. Another paramedic, Kamal Hamdan who was working for the United Nations (UNRWA), was also killed in the incident. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Afghanistan
celebrates International Women's Day Geneva, 7 March 2002 |
The first post-Taliban celebration of International Women's Day (March 8) is being used by the Afghan Red Crescent Society to highlight the role women played, often clandestinely, in keeping the humanitarian traditions of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement alive under Taliban rule. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross aids victims of communal violence in India Geneva, Delhi 6 March 2002 |
Tens of thousands of people who have sought refuge from communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in the Indian state of Gujarat, are still in need of help, says the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Palestine
Red Crescent official killed Geneva,4 March 2002 |
The Head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society Emergency Medical Service in Jenin, Dr. Khalil Sulieman, 58, was killed today. He was evacuating an injured girl in a PRCS ambulance from the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, in the West Bank. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Final
mile looms in effort to rid world of the scourge of polio Geneva,1 March 2002 |
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies today announced a mobilisation of its volunteer network to help vaccinate nearly six million children in some of the world's least developed nations where reservoirs of the polio virus still exist. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Millions
threatened by meningitis epidemic in Ethiopia Geneva, 21 February 2002 |
Nearly 39 million people are still at risk in Ethiopia from an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis which began in September last year, warns the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Crescent responds to train tragedy in Egypt Geneva, 20 February 2002 |
Hundreds of Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERCS) volunteers and staff are working round the clock visiting injured passengers in hospital and providing psychological support to victims' families after a fire swept through a Cairo train, bound for Luxor on Wednesday, February 20, killing at least 300 people and injuring some 70. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross prepares for the worst in Goma Geneva, 19 February 2002 |
The Red Cross today warned that as many as 500,000 people are still at risk from Goma's Nyiragongo volcano which erupted last month in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Emergency
drought operation in Uzbekistan Geneva,12 February 2002 |
Grinding poverty and three years of drought have left thousands of families sick and destitute in parts of Uzbekistan. Uzbek Red Crescent emergency food distributions are now underway to 20,000 people among the worst-affected populations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shocking
poverty revealed in West Afghanistan Geneva, 8 February 2002 |
A
Red Cross Red Crescent assessment mission returning from western Afghanistan
has reported scenes of great deprivation in villages and remote mountain
valleys which have been cut off from the outside world for years.
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| Red
Cross appeal for victims of Lagos explosion Geneva, 31 January 2002 |
With thousands of Lagos residents still traumatized following the series of huge explosions on January 27, at a munitions depot in Lagos' biggest military facility, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched an appeal for 750,000 Swiss francs, on behalf of the Nigerian Red Cross Society. The explosion left at least 600 people dead and hundreds more injured. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross focuses on disaster preparedness one year after Gujarat earthquake Geneva, 24 January 2002 |
On the anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed 20,000 people in the Indian state of Gujarat, the Indian Red Cross is building a national disaster preparedness network to enhance its response to future large-scale humanitarian tragedies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross airlift for victims of Congo volcano eruption is underway Geneva, 22 January 2002 |
The first two planes of an international Red Cross Red Crescent air lift operation to bring emergency assistance to people displaced by the eruption on January 17 of the Nyiragongo volcano, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have landed in Kigali. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross appeal for victims of volcano eruption in Congo Geneva, 19 January 2002 |
As an initial response to the hundreds of thousands of people on the move, fleeing the devastation and polluted atmosphere caused by the eruption on January 17 of the Nyiragongo volcano, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Federation has launched an appeal for 1.5 million Swiss francs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross remembers El Salvador's earthquake victims Geneva, 11 January 2002 |
The first of a deadly pair of earthquakes struck El Salvador on January 13 last year. It was followed by another on February 13, bringing the overall death toll to 1,259 and leaving 9,000 injured, and thousands homeless. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Imminent
return of Ebola experts to affected area in Gabon Geneva, 11 January 2002 |
A team of international medical experts is expected to return to the ebola-affected area of Mekambo in Gabon, tomorrow, 12 January, after Red Cross personnel helped to defuse tensions with the local population, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red
Cross seeks to mediate return of Ebola experts to affected region
of Gabon Geneva, 10 January 2002 |
The Gabonese Red Cross, supported by medics from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, is seeking to restore access to an Ebola-affected part of Gabon for international experts who have been working with the local authorities to stem an epidemic which has so far claimed 18 lives in Gabon and seven more in the neighbouring Republic of the Congo. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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