The International Committee of the Red Cross says its delegates are assessing the humanitarian situation in South Ossetia and have begun administering to the needs of the resident population. The ICRC says a 17-member team, which arrived in the Geor...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 15 May 2008 The International Red Cross says heavy rains will bring new misery to survivors of the cyclone in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta region. Ron Corben has this report from Bangkok. Officials with International Federation of Re...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 09 May 2008 Troops, tanks, warplanes and missiles paraded across Red Square in Moscow Friday for the first time since the Soviet collapse. The display came as Russia celebrated its May 9 Victory Day over Nazi Germany. VOA Mos...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 07 May 2008 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for nearly $6 million to help cyclone victims in Burma. The Red Cross says this preliminary appeal will deal with emergency needs and...
By Carolyn Turner Washington 23 April 2008 The Global Fund was started five years ago by the United Nations as an innovative partnership of governments, nonprofits and the private sector to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The fund, which has in...
By Katherine Cole Washington 14 March 2008 For the past 25 years, Red House Records has been one of America's premiere independent record labels. Based in Saint Paul Minnesota, NOT Los Angeles, New York or Nashville, Red House is the label of choice...
By Alex Villarreal Washington 11 January 2008 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says one to four percent of all young women in the United States are affected by eating disorders such as anorexia, and an estimated 17 percent of children...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 December 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross has begun distributing essential items to more than 500 displaced families who have taken refuge in South Kivu in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Cong...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 December 2007 Five weeks after a killer cyclone hit Bangladesh, more than one million people live without adequate shelter. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the cyclone devastated coastal villages and killed...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 November 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross says sexual violence against women and girls in the North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo is among the worst it has ever seen. Lisa Schlein reports for...