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. .

 

Poverty, deforestation, violence and instability have turned Haiti into the poorest nation in the Americas. While the arrival in 2004 of the United Nations Stabilization Mission has helped to reduce the violence particularly in overcrowded urban areas, the collapse of the economy and chronic poverty mean that Haiti faces an uncertain future.