A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on 31 August 2025, killing 800 people. Learn more about what happened and how the Red Cross is helping.

From smallpox to Covid-19, we have played an essential role in vaccination campaigns to prevent diseases and improve public health. Smallpox was a highly infectious and deadly disease that was endemic ...

In this report, we evidence that high intensity use of A&E is fundamentally a health inequalities issue. Our new report, Nowhere else to turn: exploring high intensity use of accident and emergency ...

Our free and confidential international family tracing service can help with finding your family if you haven’t been able to contact them yourself. We may be able to help you if you are in the UK and ...

The Afghan Red Crescent Society is responding to help people affected by a powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake, which struck southeastern Afghanistan late on Sunday, 31 August. The British Red Cross is ...

It's been four years since we saw the harrowing scenes from Afghanistan on TV and across social media. In Afghanistan today, decades of conflict and natural disasters have left two thirds of the ...

On 28 March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar at approximately 1:10pm local time, its epicentre located 17 kilometres southeast of Mandalay. The Sagaing and Mandalay regions have ...

More than 50,000 refugees could be made homeless by the end of the year if the Government doesn’t take urgent steps to support them as it clears the asylum backlog, the British Red Cross warns. The ...

On 8 September 2023, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco, causing widespread destruction. Thousands of people lost their lives and many more lost livelihoods, homes and loved ones. Moroccan Red ...

Several parts of Europe including Greece, Italy, the Canary Islands, Spain, Turkey and Cyprus are dealing with unusually hot weather and heatwaves with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees. Level 3 heat ...

A new report from the British Red Cross, Seen and heard: Understanding frequent attendance at A&E, has found people who frequently attended A&E in Dorset were 72 per cent more likely to live in an ...

A British Red Cross volunteer of more than four decades, who supported people impacted by the London tube bombings in July 2005, has been recognised in the New Year’s Honour’s List. Volunteer ...