New Zealand is one of the first 30 countries to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions which comes into force on 1 August 2010.The International Committee of the Red Cross said the convention is a major step toward..   read more

New Zealand Red Cross is investigating fraudulent phone calls by people claiming to be raising money for Red Cross. During the call, the fraudsters ask people for their home phone number, and say a donation to New Zealand Red Cross will appear on their next..   read more

Quick thinking by Red Cross Response Team members helped 42 people at a Red Cross training camp at Berwick Lodge in Otago escape with their lives. At 5:50am on 29 May, Response Team member and Dunedin Programme and Events Coordinator Richard Marlow h..   read more

Wednesday 12 August marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 - four treaties that place limits on how war is waged and form the cornerstone of international humanitarian law (IHL). IHL is one of the most powerful t..   read more

The 17th General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has ended with the unanimous adoption of Strategy 2020 - a plan that lays out the collective commitments of its 186 members. Strategy 2020 aims to bette..   read more

“As a child, I had to leave home at 6.00 in the morning to collect water for my family from a pond on a hill three kilometres away,” recalls 45-year-old Keo Sok, the head of Veal Choeung village in coastal Cambodia. “My father and his father ..   read more