About RCRC magazine

Red Cross Red Crescent magazine is a global, humanitarian affairs magazine that serves as a source of high-quality humanitarian analysis and reporting for the many components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Through a digital and innovative storytelling approach, its content addresses challenges and trends in the humanitarian sector, tells thought-provoking and moving stories that capture what happens in the field, amplifies the voices of the communities we serve and positions the magazine as a lead voice in the sector.

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Recipes for Resilience

Food brings us closer together. It connects us to our roots, to our family and our traditions. But climate change, economic upheaval, displacement or conflict are putting the nutrition and well-being of many communities at great risk. In this series we explore the foods we love, the people who cook them and the links between our favorite meals and the critical human challenges of our times.

Inclusion

Video story

Houda’s Dream

A Syrian refugee finds her path, exploring the common bonds between Syrian and Turkish cuisine.

Disasters

Video story

Comfort after the storm

From ‘Hurricane Burgers’ to lobster wraps, Lovely Reckley serves traditional Bahamian comfort food with a twist as her restaurant helps a community recover from a deadly storm

Climate Change

Video story

Seaweed serves up a solution to climate woes

How a healthy, ecologically friendly dish from the sea is helping island communities weather ever more ferocious storms.

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Fresh Stories

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Health

Article

Putting the chill on Spain’s Covid-19 hotspots

As Covid-19 spikes again in many European cities, young volunteers hit the streets, trying to cool down the pandemic’s spread by bringing a healthy message to the places where young people hang out.

Conflict

Article

Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital: why nuclear weapons must never be used again

As of today, 50 countries have ratified a treaty that bans nuclear weapons, a significant milestone that adds momentum to the movement toward the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons.

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Galleries

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Migration

Photo gallery

A father and son roadtrip

Juan used to work so much that he would hardly see his son Santiago. Now they are on a journey of a lifetime.

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Volunteers

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Handcuffing the helpers | Part 1

As migration is increasingly treated as a security matter rather than a humanitarian concern, migrants and those trying to help them are being regarded as criminals.

Conflict

Article

Atomic bomb survivors: it’s time to ban nuclear weapons

75 years after two atomic bombs almost entirely wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survivors such as Rieko Yamada won’t rest until the world is rid of nuclear weapons.

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Cookbook for resilience

Do you have a taste for innovative solutions that help people get through crisis, that provide comfort after a storm, or that offer a lifeline to those who might be otherwise left out? If so, you will love these four Recipes for Resilience, and the stories behind them.