Red Cross Stories
: Emergencies and Disasters Worldwide
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Emergencies and Disasters Worldwide
May 07, 2014 - Six months after Typhoon Haiyan made landfall, the Red Cross continues support affected communities.
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April 22, 2014 - Ebola continues to claim lives in West Africa. As of April11, Guinea had counted close to 160 suspected cases with 104 deaths. The virus which surfaced in rural Guinea and then spread to Conakry, the capital, has now also reached neighbouring Liberia, where five cases have been confirmed.
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April 07, 2014 -
On World Health Day, April 7, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is issuing a report on "Violent incidents affecting the delivery of health care" based on a large number of recorded cases, to raise awareness of attacks on people seeking or providing health care.
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March 31, 2014 - Guinea has been hit by an Ebola outbreak, an infectious and contagious disease that is spread through contact with an infected person’s or animal’s secretions, such as saliva, or blood.
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March 26, 2014 - As the numbers demonstrate, the scale of the crisis in Syria continues to grow and so does the response of the Red Cross. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) has spent the past three years responding to the humanitarian needs of millions within Syria and National Societies in neighbouring countries are providing help to families fleeing the crisis-hit areas.
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March 20, 2014 - Red Cross has recruited and trained new volunteers, distributed materials about emblem use and protection and the Red Cross Movement’s Fundamental Principles through leaflets and mass media, liaised with hospitals and ambulance service and met frequently with authorities and law enforcement agencies.
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March 14, 2014 - The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to deteriorate. With most of the population directly or indirectly affected, the scale of the crisis is staggering and the humanitarian needs are vast.
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March 11, 2014 - On March 11, 2011, a triple disaster including an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant meltdown struck part of eastern Japan, leaving thousands of lives forever changed. Today, with the support of the Red Cross, there is clear progress towards recovery in many communities.
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March 03, 2014 - More than three months after many communities in the Philippines were devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, the Canadian Red Cross has concluded its emergency health response, handing over the field hospital deployed in November 2013 to the Philippine Red Cross.
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February 24, 2014 - Outside a crowded hall in Dagami, Leyte, scores of people are in line to register with the volunteers of the Philippine Red Cross cash distribution program.
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