2019
- Red Cross Red Crescent Conference: Over 160 States gather to address world’s most pressing humanitarian issues
- Afghanistan: Record number of disabled Afghans seek assistance in ICRC’s 30th year
- Mongolia: Warning of a “kids’ crisis” as influenza outbreak grips
- IFRC NEWSWIRE - Tuesday 23 January
- Yemen: Release and transfer of a Saudi detainee
- Red Cross urges public to check on people during big freeze
- Iraq: Massive challenges still prevent Iraqis from returning home, ICRC president says
- Is the world ready to face a nuclear war? No. So let’s ban the bomb
- Heads of UN, Red Cross/Red Crescent pledge to step up action on sexual violence in conflict
- A speech on the Geneva Conventions
- Mozambique: Emergency teams on alert as “dangerous and powerful” Tropical Cyclone Idai looms
- Syria conference: “This humanitarian emergency is not over”
- Mozambique: Full extent of humanitarian emergency still emerging
- Understanding and working with communities is essential to end Ebola, says IFRC Secretary General
- Statement by ICRC president Peter Maurer upon ending his 5-day visit to Damascus and north-eastern Syria
- Operational update on Cyclone Idai: Assistance for separated families, deep concern for rural villages
- Emergency water and sanitation units deployed to disaster-struck Mozambique
- Mozambique: “Tens of thousands of families have lost everything”
- Mozambique: “Speed, quality and scale of response critical to preventing disease outbreaks” says IFRC Secretary General
- Yemen: A renewal of fighting is endangering a tired, hungry and war-weary population
- Ten million Afghans face severe hardship after extreme weather
- Operational update on Cyclone Idai: Destruction and anguish as thousands remain homeless
- IFRC to bring humanitarian aid into Venezuela
- Red Cross Red Crescent Mediterranean National Societies to tackle cross-cutting migration issues
- Mozambique: Aid reaches community cut off since cyclone
- Mozambique Cyclone: Signs of recovery, but long road still ahead
- Syria: ICRC pleas for information on a New Zealand nurse and two Syrians abducted in 2013
- DR Congo: “Ebola is spreading faster, and many people are no longer seeking care”
- Venezuela: ICRC to expand humanitarian effort
- Iran floods: Two million people in need of humanitarian aid
- Syria: Heaviest flooding in decade worsens humanitarian crisis in Al Hasakeh region
- Operational update on Libya: Intensifying violence forces thousands from their homes
- The Slovenian Red Cross project awarded a grant
- World Red Cross Red Crescent Day: Celebrating “14 million points of hope”
- Operational update on Cyclone Kenneth: Reaching communities cut off from aid
- ACTING TOGETHER TO END SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
- Syria: Field hospital opens for displaced people in Al-Hol camp
- Red Cross on alert as Uganda confirms first Ebola case
- Cox’s Bazar: Heavy rains trigger landslides in camps, Red Crescent response efforts underway
- Ebola: As death toll approaches 2,000, vaccines, treatment and behaviour change equally important
- South Sudan: One year after peace deal, violence and humanitarian needs haven’t decreased
- Nigeria: 22,000 people registered as missing after a decade of war, ICRC’s highest caseload in the world
- Yemen: 290 detainees were released with the facilitation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
- Syria: All zones should be safe for civilians
- Operational update on Syria: Devastating impact on civilians; water shortages feared
- Migration: Alternative to Vucjak camp needed now, says Red Cross
- Philippines: Red Cross triples polio vaccination target
- Zambia: 2.3 million people face severe food insecurity
- Mozambique: Thousands at risk of disease and malnutrition as rainy season begins
- Syria: Fears for civilian population as key water plant remains out of action