Stand with us to Protect Humanity
Violence against humanitarian workers and volunteers must stop. But we can’t make it stop without your help. The Protect Humanity campaign needs you – your voice, your involvement and your action – to help us put an end to violence against those who risk their lives to help others. We must protect the first responders and volunteers who give everything to protect us. Together, we can #ProtectHumanity.
Protecting those who protect us all
It’s not enough to celebrate and honor volunteers and first responders. We need to have their back. We need to stand beside and behind them when they need us most. For this, we need your help, your voice, to help us turn this around.
On World Humanitarian Day in 2024 (August 19), the IFRC launches the Protect Humanity campaign to urgently demand safety and protection for all humanitarian workers.
So far in 2024, 28 Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers – ambulance drivers, paramedics, community-based volutneers and other first responders – have been killed while working urgenty to save others.
This is unacceptable. These volunteers risk their lifes in countless crises around the world, in situations of violence and conflict, as well as during pandemics, drought, earthquakes and floods. They cannot do their work if they are not protected and kept safe from the many dangers they face.
We need to stand beside and behind them when they need us most. For this, we need your help to turn this around. Join our #protecthumanity campaign and show people on all sides that humanitarian workers are #notatarget.
Watch: ‘We’ve run out of words’
Devastated, heartbroken, shocked, appalled. We've used words like these too many times in recent days. Now we are running out of words. But if you join us, and share this message, we can make the world listen. Please share this video and our other #protecthumanity messages on social media and with all your friends and family.
IFRC statements about volunteers and staff who have died in line of duty in 2024
This is a list of the statements made by IFRC in 2024 alone concerning Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers who lost their lives in the line of duty.
IFRC mourns the tragic loss of Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer during flood rescue efforts
The IFRC is saddened by the death of a volunteer paramedic in the West Bank
IFRC saddened by the killing of two Sudanese Red Crescent volunteers in Sennar State, eastern Sudan
IFRC mourns the killing of two MDA volunteers confirmed dead
The IFRC is saddened by the killing of another two members of Palestine Red Crescent Society
Statement: IFRC mourns the death of another Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer
Statement: IFRC mourns death of another Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer killed in the line of duty
Statement: IFRC condemns the killing of a Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer
IFRC condemns killing of Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer while on duty
Statement: IFRC appalled by the killing of another Palestine Red Crescent colleague
Statement: IFRC mourns the loss of another Palestine Red Crescent staff member
Statement: IFRC devastated at loss of another Palestine Red Crescent staff member
IFRC on three Palestine Red Crescent members killed: 'Unacceptable'.
Statement: IFRC condemns killing of Ethiopian Red Cross ambulance driver
Statement: The IFRC condemns the killing of four members of Palestine Red Crescent Society in Gaza