(Updated April 1, 2021) The WHO officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. This is the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus. The WHO’s director-general stated, “We...
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is now the worst in the Western Hemisphere and has led to the largest displacement of people in Latin American history. The citizens in Venezuela...
(Image: © UNICEF/NYHQ2015-0153/Tiku) Syria’s raging civil war headed into its eighth year in March 2018. Currently, as many as 13.1 million Syrian people are in need of emergency aid. According to the...
(Updated on July 9, 2018) As of May 2018, more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees have fled from Myanmar’s Rakhine State to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh for safety, and the violence inflicted by...
Many people think of the Red Cross as only one entity. There are actually three major types of Red Cross organizations included in the Red Cross Movement: the national Red...
