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Overseas sitemap
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The British Red Cross works around the world, focusing on emergency response, health and social care, disaster preparedness, and humanitarian law.
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We respond to disasters and conflicts around the world.
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A devastating earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, killing hundreds and affecting thousands more.
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Find out how the Red Cross is responding after the massive earthquake in Haiti, and how you can help.
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Pakistan Crisis Appeal
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The British Red Cross has been working in Darfur since 2004 providing food, water and healthcare to the most vulnerable.
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There are few humanitarian organisations that respond as quickly to disasters as the Red Cross. We are usually the first organisation at the scene.
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This fund provides financial assistance to Britons who have been seriously injured or bereaved by terrorism abroad.
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The British Red Cross does not just leave once an emegency is over. We are working in several countries to help communities recover from emergencies.
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Hundreds died and millions of people were after a typhoon, floods, earthquakes and a tsunami hit the Philippines, Vietnam, Samoan islands and Indonesia.
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The British Red Cross has launched an appeal for the victims of hurricanes in the Caribbean, including Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Hanna and Hurricane Ike.
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Information about the British Red Cross appeal to help people affected by the Myanmar (Burma) cyclone.
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The British Red Cross has launched an urgent appeal to raise money for those affected by the recent China earthquake.
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The British Red Cross launched an appeal in November 2007 after Cyclone Sidr killed thousands and destroyed villages and livelihoods.
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The British Red Cross helped thousands of Boxing Day tsunami survivors across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
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The British Red Cross has been supporting thousands of people affected by internal conflict in northern Uganda for many years.
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As a leading emergency response organisation, we have responded to many natural disasters and manmade emergencies in recent years across the world.
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We help communities all over the world be prepared for disasters. Find out more about our disaster preparedness programmes.
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The Red Cross helps vulnerable people prepare for disasters because we know being prepared saves lives, protects economic assets, and safeguards livelihoods.
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A new Red Cross/Red Crescent project seeks to empower women in Bangladesh by preparing them for disasters before they happen.
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We made disaster risk reduction a priority in our work to help people in Indonesia recover from the devastating effects of the 2004 tsunami.
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The British Red Cross is supporting the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to modernise their disaster management operations, increasing ability to respond to disasters.
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The Nepal Red Cross has been working with 15 communities in Illam and Panchtar districts to reduce the risk of disasters since 2006.
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We support health and social care programmes around the world, supporting people to gain the skills and knowledge they need to address their needs.
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The Red Cross is uniquely placed to tackle some of the health and social care problems affecting the poorer nations. Through our volunteers and staff in 181 countries, we addresses everyday needs in the communities we work in.
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Find out about the social care programmes we support around the world.
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Over 33 million people are living with HIV worldwide, making it one of the world's most serious humanitarian crises.
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The British Red Cross carries out a range of water and sanitation programmes throughout Africa and Asia.
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When a conflict strikes we provide support to those affected. Once the crisis is over, we continue to help.
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Community health and care
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People in armed conflict must respect our emblems. If they don't let us carry out our humanitarian work they're in breach of international humanitarian law.
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Find out about our short summer law programme on international humanitarian law, or the laws of war.
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Even in times of war, there are rules. Find out about the rules designed to protect people during armed conflict.
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The British Red Cross welcomes signing of Oslo Convention on Cluster Munitions.
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Civilians and Conflict Month is a media campaign in October 2008 to highlight the Red Cross' work with people affected by armed conflict.
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The British Red Cross works worldwide to restore and maintain contact between families by exchanging messages between loved ones and searching for missing relatives.
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When families are separated due to conflict, disaster or migration, the British Red Cross works worldwide to trace missing relatives and put them back in touch. The services are free, confidential, neutral and impartial.
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If you would like to send a Red Cross message to your family or trace family members, please contact your local Red Cross office.
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For more than 100 years, the Red Cross has worked to help people locate those they have lost because of conflict or disaster. Read their stories.
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Other organisations that may be able to help, and information sheets.
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Where we work overseas
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The British Red Cross has eight Overseas Branches: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands.
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Asia
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British Red Cross activities in the region focus on social care of the excluded and vulnerable. HIV programmes and disaster response are also high priorities.
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How the British Red Cross responds to crisis around the world.
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News about the Red Cross's work across the world.
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As the death toll from Saturdays earthquake in Chile reaches more than 700, the international Red Cross response is taking shape.
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The British Red Cross has today launched an emergency appeal to support people affected by the massive earthquake in Chile on 27 February 2010.
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The British Red Cross has released 50,000 from its Disaster Fund to help those affected by the massive earthquake in Chile this morning.
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Three young boys had an emotional reunion with their families a month after an earthquake hit Haiti, thanks to the Red Cross.
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A British Red Cross psychosocial support team arrived in Madeira over the weekend to provide practical help and emotional support to Britons affected by the flash flooding.
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One month on from the devastating quake in Haiti which has affected millions, the British Red Cross races to bring relief to those in need as the rainy season begins.
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The British Red Cross has launched its first micro-loan programme anywhere in the world in Balbala, a slum on the outskirts of Djibouti Ville, the capital of Djibouti.
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Two weeks on from the Haiti quake, journalists are reporting scenes of chaos and questions are naturally being asked about why the relief effort is taking so long.
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Sebastian is only five months old and is too young to understand that he doesn't have a mother since the earthquake struck Haiti almost two weeks ago.
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Two babies were born on 20 January at a Red Cross field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
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The British Red Cross is sending an emergency hygiene team to Haiti, with urgently needed sanitation equipment for the hundreds of thousands of people.
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Over the weekend, relief supplies and personnel continued to arrive in Haiti and the surrounding area.
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In the Turks and Caicos Islands, hundreds of people affected by hurricanes in 2008 now have sanitation facilities thanks to a Red Cross recovery programme.
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An outpouring of public generosity for people devastated by the Haiti quake has helped the Red Cross raise 1 million in 36 hours of launching its appeal.
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A devastating earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Haiti on 13 January 2010, killing thousands and affecting many more.
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Tens of thousands of people affected by floods in Kenya and Tanzania are receiving emergency relief from the Red Cross.
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Click on left hand side for news stories from 2007
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Click on left-hand side for stories from 2006
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Click on the left-hand side to find all the latest news and stories from 2005.
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