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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The great data gold rush

In this series, we explore how humanitarian organizations use data in creative new ways to help people around the world through immense hardship. And we examine the great challenge humanitarians face in the 21st century: protecting people from harm in the physical world is entirely dependent on the protection of their personal data, their virtual persona, in cyberspace. Stay tuned! We will release episodes 2 and 3 weekly

Tech & Innovation

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1 of 3 | Why data protection is critical in humanitarian action

Data can save lives and humanitarian organizations are mobilizing to improve the way they collect and use it. But are they ready to handle the largely unregulated, ‘wild west’ of the global data market?

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2 of 3| Block or accept?

As humanitarian groups have rushed to embrace new technologies, biometric data such as eye, finger and palm scans have become a common method for humanitarian organizations to track aid during emergencies. But is the humanitarian sector fully ready to protect this most personal form of data?

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3 of 3 | Protecting the vulnerable means protecting the virtual

In places where conflict or crisis means basic services are scarce, the use of data is saving lives. But protecting people’s physical well-being, experts say, is also about protecting their digital profile in cyberspace.

Women in Science

For centuries, women have made significant contributions to science, medicine and technology. Thanks to their work, the world is safer, healthier and more humane. The tradition continues. Meet Romy, astrophysics student and volunteer at Slovak Red Cross, and Eva, biologist and emergency response delegate at Spanish Red Cross. With this series, we celebrate all women and girls in science.

Volunteers

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A heart and mind for solving universal problems

As a researcher, Romy Mikušincová takes on one of the greatest mysteries of space. As a Red Cross volunteer, she explores some of the most pressing social and humanitarian issues of our times.

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Seeing the world, and helping others, through science

As a biologist who responds to emergencies for the Spanish Red Cross, Eva Turró has found her place in the humanitarian world, raising awareness about the life-saving link between health and hygiene in the wake of calamity.

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

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Houda’s Dream

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

Disasters

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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

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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.

Expert Sources

Through a series of online interviews with different experts from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Red Cross Red Crescent magazine dives deep to explore different angles in which Covid-19 is affecting some of the most vulnerable communities around the world. How would Ramadan change during lockdown? How to support people with disabilities during this health emergency? Join us in this Expert Sources series and find out more.

Health

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Expert Sources: Covid-19 in Syria’s sizzling summer heat

Ahmada Mohamedy Siogope talks about caring for people displaced by war, living in tents and dealing with Covid-19 in northeastern Syria’s sizzling summer heat.

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Expert sources: A Ramadan like no other

Experts explore the challenges and the opportunities for a healthy change during Ramadan celebrations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Expert Sources: COVID-19 or hunger?

IFRC’s Michael Charles explores the challenges of a life-or-death choice for African families.

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Fresh Stories

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Connection in the age of distance

Migrants and refugees know what it means to be cut off from society, and from their loved ones and cultures far away. At a time defined by separation, let’s listen to what they have to say about coping and connecting in the age of Covid-19.

Volunteers

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‘A group of strangers moved by the same feeling’

Just like Angela, hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the world have joined Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies during the Covid-19 response.

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Galleries

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Migration

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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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Living with trauma

People from around the world share their story about how trauma affected their lives and how they ha[...]

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A city of misery

With heavier rains expected to hit their makeshift camps, desperate people who fled violence in Myan[...]

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Inclusion

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From goats to gourmet

A small farm in north-eastern Hungary is giving a boost to hard-hit people and putting locally produced cheeses on the gourmet map.

Conflict

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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.

Health

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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.