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.

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.

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 ...

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 how humanitarian aid is getting into Gaza and how the Red Cross Red Crescent movement is trying to help more than 1.5million people at risk of famine.

Explore all British Red Cross free teaching resources on humanitarianism for primary and secondary learners. Engaging lessons for a productive classroom.

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.