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Aid to help people made homeless by earthquake and tsunami. The European Commission has pledged €10 million to help the more than 30,000 Japanese who have been made...

Ulrich Cronenberg on how volunteering turned into a life-long professional commitment. Ulrich Cronenberg has spent most of his life involved with the Red Cross. The acting...

Kristalina Georgieva is doubtful about a standing crisis force and thinks that the current, voluntary system is ‘working'. The European commissioner in charge of the EU's...

This tragedy showed how little the EU's disaster reponse procedures have changed. On the margins of the evident human tragedy, the earthquake that shook Haiti on 12 January...

The international community should be asking tough questions of the supposed victors of Sri Lanka's civil war. No one should shed a tear for the collapse of the Tamil Tigers...

Conflicts conjure up images of bombings, fighting, refugees on the move and people injured and dying. But one of the most acute effects of conflicts is damage and disruption...

You wrongly report that the British Red Cross expects the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to speak out more about its visits to detainees (European Voice,...

The head of the world's largest emergency relief organisation has urged the EU to ensure that its military operations do not “blur the lines” between the work of...

IT HAS been a nightmarish week in Iraq. Apart from the obvious human tragedy of the Baghdad explosions on Monday (27 October), which claimed at least 35 lives, the choice of...

EU-FUNDED aid workers in Iraq are not expected to receive any protection from the American and British troops seeking to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime. European...

THE European Commission is ready to invoke emergency procedures allowing it provide up to €3 million of aid in the event of war in Iraq. Poul Nielson, the commissioner...

THE RED Cross recently launched a new campaign to cut the 40,000 deaths that occur on EU roads each year. The European Commission is backing the initiative, which focuses in...

A RED Cross campaign to cut the 40,000 deaths that occur on EU roads each year was due to be launched in Brussels today (12 September). The European Commission is backing...

LIKE Brussels, Geneva's corridors are usually quiet in August. But this year is different. This year, 300,000 southern Africans could be dead by Christmas. This year, the...

AID experts will meet in London next week to try to resolve the increasingly difficult issue of when to give humanitarian assistance in the wake of conflicts and with what...

THE Commission this week approved a first package of humanitarian aid worth 2 million ecu for victims of the crisisin Albania. Officials said theaid, managed by the European...