World disasters and emergencies

Museum within a Defender vehicle at London's Southbank to celebrate our 70 year partnership.

Celebrating 70 years with Defender

This year marks seven decades of partnership between the British Red Cross and Defender. Together, we've reached more than 2 million people in crisis, and we're not stopping there.

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A member of the Italian Red Cross treats a man affected by extreme heat in Italy in 2023.

Europe heatwaves 2024: protect your health from excessive heat

Many parts of the world are currently experiencing above-average temperatures with intense and prolonged heatwaves hitting Europe, India, Saudi Arabia, and North America.

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A Palestine Red Crescent volunteer delivers aid to children in Gaza

How is aid getting into Gaza?

With more than 1.5 million people in Gaza at risk of famine, safe and unimpeded aid access is desperately needed. But how will it get delivered?

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ICRC medic comforts boy in Gaza during the Israel-OPT conflict

Plunging temperatures, broken healthcare and disease in Gaza could kill more than the conflict

Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza no longer have access to healthcare. Yet health workers continue to risk their lives to save others. They must be protected at all costs.

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ICRC members leave building badly damaged during the conflict in Ukraine.

Red Cross supports Okhmatdyt children's hospital after explosions in Kyiv

Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) emergency response teams were deployed in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Sloviansk following a wave of explosions which struck on Monday, 8 July 2024.

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Granada Red Cross responds to Storm Beryl

Red Cross responds as Hurricane Beryl devastates the Carribean

Red Cross teams have sprung into action after Hurricane Beryl, the first category 5 storm to strike this early in the year, devastates a number of Caribbean islands.

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Gaza field hospital 1084 x 610

Red Cross responds to vast medical needs in Rafah

The new hospital has already treated people injured in airstrikes at the weekend and has specialist departments for emergency services, maternity and paediatric care.

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Split to show both Palestinian Red Crescent responding in Gaza and Magen David Adom responding in Israel.

Remembering Red Cross and Red Crescent colleagues killed in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank

Humanitarian aid workers are just trying to deliver the basics: medical care, shelter, food and water.

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A Sudanese woman and her crying son in temporary shelter after fleeing conflict in Sudan.

Sudan: a year of conflict, missing families and heartache

Sudan needs our attention. After a year of conflict, one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises is taking hold.

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British Red Cross chief executive, Beatrice Butsana-Sita

"This conflict is made up of thousands of individual tragedies"

Béatrice Butsana-Sita became CEO of the British Red Cross in November. Four months later, she was in the Middle East, meeting people caught up in one of the most devastating and complex conflicts in recent memory.

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