Tag:Red Cross
Civil society
Nation state or state-sponsored group behind ICRC cyber-attack?
A month has passed since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000...
Civil society
Three committees too many: Nepal Red Cross in a shambles
The initial months of 2022 have been full of turmoil for the Nepal Red Cross Society, often the only provider of humanitarian services in...
Afghanistan
Duty calls to alleviate suffering in Afghanistan
Imagine for a minute that you are in those conditions; you need to put food on the table for your starving children, it is...
Human rights
ICRC still clueless on data breach
ICRC’s “deep data drive” into the hacking of its servers does not seem to have yielded much, except the knowledge that hackers had been...
Bangladesh
A wee bit of seed money ushers in big time change
From tending to a kitchen garden or rearing a cow, to making handicraft items or running a small village shop, some 800-plus women, all...
Civil society
Sophisticated cyber-attack targets Red Cross data on 500,000 people
A cyber-attack targetted an external company in Switzerland that the ICRC contracts to store data. It has compromised personal data and confidential information on...
COVID-19
Surviving on a diet of rice, oil and beans – and hunger, insecurities and COVID-19
Squatters on the outskirts of Myanmar’s capital city, Yangon, juggle their need for food with the fear of eviction. Their existence get yet further...
COVID-19
American Red Cross declares a first-ever blood crisis amid Omicron surge
Dire blood shortage has forced doctors to delay critical blood transfusions for people in need. The Red Cross and the National Football League have...
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Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
Companies’ emissions reduction targets should not be the sole measure of corporate climate ambition, according to a new perspective...
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Bangladesh witnesses longest heat wave in 76 years
Meteorologists said that Bangladesh is experiencing its longest heat wave in recorded history this April with forecasts showing no...
Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is high enough not to allow microfinance to bring about any...
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Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
Companies’ emissions reduction targets should not be the sole...
Bangladesh witnesses longest heat wave in 76 years
Meteorologists said that Bangladesh is experiencing its longest heat...
