 Media
Tweets heard around the world
How social media are transforming humanitarian response.
Dispatches from the Japanese Red Cross Society, the
IFRC and other National Societies on how to handle
today’s viral media environment.
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 National
Society
Courage under fire
Showing incredible professionalism, volunteers with the
Syrian Arab Red Crescent have been on the front line,
recovering the wounded, performing on-the-spot first
aid, handing out food and medicines under the worst of
conditions.
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 Focus
Forgotten dignity
The inmates of Madagascar’s
Antanimora prison live in cramped, overcrowded, unhealthy
and insecure conditions, forgotten by the outside world.
These photos are a window into the daily life inside
Antanimora, where regular ICRC and family
visits, and small rehabilitation projects aim to restore
the health and dignity of all inmates.
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 Detention
Inside ‘Old Bilibid’
In jails such as Manila’s severely overcrowded ‘Old
Bilibid’, the ICRC’s Call for Action brings
various partners and the Philippine Red Cross together
to improve the lives and health of detainees.
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 Guest editorial
Journalists’ safety:
a vital humanitarian concern
By Christof Heyns Christof Heyns is the United Nations
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions.
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 Resources
Resources available from IFRC and ICRC, among others: Working for the ICRC;
The road to resilience; Towards social inclusion: physical rehabilitation programme...
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 Evidence-based
practices
Breathing new life into first aid.
The first in a series about efforts to back up Movement
work with evidence. How IFRC and National Society research
is breathing new life into the way first aid is taught
and delivered around the world.
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 World
First Aid Day
‘Everybody as one’
Working together, the ICRC and the Nigerian Red Cross Society are empowering
violence-torn communities with the best first-aid practices, adapted to a region
where access to medical care is limited and supplies are few and far between.
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 Food
security
The hungry season
In the Sahel, the regular dry season is being exacerbated
by conflict. The aftermath of conflict in Libya, displacement
caused by new fighting in Mali and a slow international
response have added to the region’s woes.
 Replicating
resilience
In eastern Kenya, farmers
are turning droughtresistant cassava roots into flour
for pizza dough. A little further north, a 1,335-hectare
farm is transforming the local food economy and breaking
the cycle of hunger and aid dependence. Can projects
like these be sustained and expanded to meet the needs
of a desperate region?
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 In
Brief
A summary of Red Cross and Red Crescent activities around the world.
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 Back
cover
A painting of Japanese Emporer Meiji and Empress Shoken visiting
the wounded in Hiroshima during the Russo–Japanese War (1904–1905).
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