Truth, Trust and Humanitarian Action in the Age of Harmful Information The World Disasters Report 2026 warns harmful information as a de facto humanitarian crisis – undermining access to aid, eroding trust, destabilizing social cohesion and increasing...
In a crowded rural health facility in one of the villages of Al-Wahj sub-district, Qatabah district in Al-Dhalea governorate, a father carried his young daughter suffering from severe dehydration after days of untreated diarrhoea. When the doctor asked why they had...
Harmful information has always been part of crises. To take just one example, the 1918 influenza became the “Spanish flu” not because it began in Spain, but because wartime censors elsewhere kept quiet while neutral Spain’s press reported freely. The misinformation...
When harmful information undermines trust, innovation and community voices can make the difference. This belief drives Natukunda Bernard, a Youth Volunteer with the Uganda Red Cross Society, whose pioneering work to combat misinformation earned him the International...
When Olivier Iradukunda first joined the Burundi Red Cross in 2017, he was just a young volunteer eager to give back to his community. Today, with a degree in health sciences and years of experience leading youth initiatives, he has become a driving force for change....
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