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The IPC declared famine in areas of Gaza, including Gaza City, on 22 August 2025. This is the latest in a series of dire warnings about the humanitarian situation on the ground.
News and updates about the 2025 Pakistan floods. What’s happening and how the Red Cross is supporting those affected.
News and updates about the 2025 Pakistan floods. What’s happening and how the Red Cross is supporting those affected.
How the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement is helping people in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank amid a conflict and humanitarian crisis.
Find out what help you can get from the British Red Cross as a refugee, asylum seeker or vulnerable migrant in the UK.
Learn how the Red Cross is helping support communities struck by disaster and emergencies in the UK including real life stories, explainers and expert views.
The smallpox vaccine led to the development of many more life-saving vaccines. Diphtheria is now rare in the UK because of vaccination programmes that began in 1940 when the death rate from diphtheria ...
With 470,000 people facing starvation and an IPC-backed famine declared in parts of Gaza, unimpeded humanitarian aid access is desperately needed. But how will it get delivered?
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