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Red Cross Red Crescent: We need new extraordinary steps to increa...

18/05/2021 | Article

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is calling on states and pharmaceutical companies to move much faster toward a solution to the glaring inequity in access to COVID-19 vaccines around the world. We need to agree now on ways to inc...

Marshall Islands Red Cross staff and volunteers support the government's rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in January 2021

18/05/2021

Red Cross Red Crescent: We need new extraordinary st...

18/05/2021

Tuvalu: Communities face climate drought disaster

08/09/2021 | Press release

Kuala Lumpur/Funafuti/Suva, 8 September 2021 – The small Pacific Island country of Tuvalu, has been experiencing low rainfall conditions, with mounting concerns of extreme water shortages for people across the tropical islands. Tuvalu has been f...

Tuvalu Red Cross volunteers and emergency response teams are urgently working with people in villages across Tuvalu to address water shortages due to one of the worst droughts on record.

08/09/2021

Tuvalu: Communities face climate drought disaster

08/09/2021

Haiti earthquake: thousands in dire need of health care and safe ...

07/09/2021 | Press release

Port au Prince, Panama, Geneva, 7 September 2021— The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warns that access to health care and safe water is critical following the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on 14 Au...

Haiti Red Cross volunteer Daphney Dorsainvil measuring water quality indicators on the Mass Sanitation Module (MSM) in L'Asile. The MSM is capable of filtering and distributing clean potable water to over 4,000 people affected by the earthquake in L'Asile, Nippes Department.

07/09/2021

Haiti earthquake: thousands in dire need of health c...

07/09/2021

Aid critical as Afghanistan faces escalating humanitarian crises

07/09/2021 | Press release

Kuala Lumpur, Kabul, Geneva, 7 September 2021 – The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is calling for urgent action as millions of Afghans face colossal humanitarian needs wrought by a combination of crises: one...

Afghan Red Crescent is providing ongoing relief, healthcare and other services in drought-affected areas and in every province of Afghanistan.

07/09/2021

Aid critical as Afghanistan faces escalating humanit...

07/09/2021

IFRC launches multiregional plan to ramp up humanitarian assistan...

26/08/2021 | Press release

Geneva, 26 August 2021– The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched today a three-year plan to extend humanitarian assistance and support to migrants and displaced people along the migration routes of ...

26/08/2021

IFRC launches multiregional plan to ramp up humanita...

26/08/2021

A Red Cross volunteer transporting a patient to the hospital in an ambulance

COVID-19 outbreak

More than a year since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020, every aspect of peoples’ lives are still affected. Our focus remains on supporting communities to reduce transmission and save lives, while helping the world's most vulnerab...

14/07/2021

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COVID-19 Outbreak (MDRCOVID19)

14/07/2021 | PDF

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Afghanistan: Humanitarian crises

This revised Emergency Appeal seeks 36 million Swiss francs, increased from 15 million Swiss francs, to scale up the Afghan Red Crescent Society's (ARCS) humanitarian response to multiple humanitarian crises in Afghanistan. The country is experiencin...

06/09/2021

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Afghanistan - Humanitarian crises (MDRAF007)

06/09/2021 | PDF

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People in Haiti evacuate while navigating landslides caused by the earthquake.

Haiti: Earthquake

On Saturday, 14 August a major 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti. Preliminary reports by Haitian Red Cross volunteers and IFRC staff on the ground confirmed the earthquake caused severe damage to infrastructure, including hospitals, especially in J�...

16/08/2021

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Haiti - Earthquake (MDRHT018)

16/08/2021 | PDF

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The Ocean Viking rescue ship run by SoS Mediterranee

Central Mediterranean population movement: Humanitarian Service Point at sea

In 2021, there has been a sharp increase in the number of migrants attempting the deadly Central Mediterranean route. This Emergency Appeal seeks a total of 2 million Swiss francs to enable the IFRC to provide humanitarian services on the sea section...

19/07/2021

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Europe - Humanitarian Service Point @ Sea (MDR65005)

19/07/2021 | PDF

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A mother and her two children in Ainabo camp, Somaliland stand together having just attended a mobile health clinic run by the Somali Red Crescent Society which provides basic health services to remote regions

Somalia: Hunger crisis 2021

In Somalia, 5.6 million people are currently food insecure and 2.8 million people cannot meet their daily food requirements due to the compounding impacts of extended drought, flooding, desert locust infestations, the economic impacts of COVID-19 and...

19/07/2021

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Somalia - Drought Emergency 2021 (MDRSO011)

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World Disasters Report 2020

The impacts of climate change are already devastating lives and livelihoods every year, and they will only get worse without immediate and determined action. The World Disasters Report 2020 analyses climate disaster trends and shows how we can tackle the humanitarian impacts of the climate crisis together.