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Typhoon Haiyan

Discover more on the Red Cross Red Crescent response to the most powerful storm to ever make landfall.

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Disaster law

Strong disaster law can make communities safer and response operations more effective.

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WDR2015

World Disasters Report – Focus on local actors, the key to humanitarian effectiveness

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Resilience Journal

See 42 inspirational stories of resilience from around the world.

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Press releases

350 migrants rescued today from unsafe boats in the Mediterranean Sea; Seven tragic deaths

Geneva/Malta, 5 September 2016.   In a day of intense rescue operations, the Red Cross and its...

Stop indifference: Mass sea rescues continue a year after tragic death of Alan Kurdi

Geneva/Malta, 2 September 2016. A year to the day since images of little Alan Kurdi captured glob...

President Konoé: Inclusion and tolerance are at the heart of Red Cross work with migrants in Germany

Geneva/Berlin, 3 September 2016: Thousands of volunteers from the German Red Cross are playing a...

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