The ICRC together with the VII Photo agency has launched a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of today’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. As part of the campaign, which marks the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross, the ICRC sent five photographers from VII to eight conflict-affected countries to examine up-close the suffering caused by war and violence.
An exhibition of the work is being shown in 40 countries.
Amazon Ablaze — Global Climate Change
by John Stanmeyer
In 2008 a part of the Amazon Rainforest located in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil was under threat like never before. According to figures released by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, 9,626 square miles (24,932 km2) of Amazon forest in Brazil was damaged between August 2007 and July 2008. A 67 percent increase of rainforest damage in ...
