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.

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?

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 ...

Find out what help you can get from the British Red Cross as a refugee, asylum seeker or vulnerable migrant in the UK.

How the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement is helping people in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank amid a conflict and humanitarian crisis.

Get help finding missing relatives or family members through our international family tracing service. Our locating services may be able to help you find people you have been separated from because of ...

Read the story of one mother, Ghada, who gave birth to her daughter at the Red Cross Field Hospital in Gaza and learn of the dangers her new-born baby faces.

News and updates about the 2025 Pakistan floods. What’s happening and how the Red Cross is supporting those affected.

Advice for protecting your health from excessive heat for people travelling to Europe and other parts of the world at risk of excessive heat this summer.