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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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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