Australian Red Cross humanitarian diplomacy has gone high-tech, with an App which throws everyday Australians face-to-face with some of the life-and-death choices refugees are forced to make.

In the ‘And then I was a refugee…’ App, users select a character who is forced to run for their life when their village is attacked by rebels. Along the way they have to make decisions such as whether to join the rebels to stay alive, whether to steal water from a village, or if they should accept help from a people smuggler.

Red Cross is helping former residents of Christchurch who are still recovering from the devastating earthquakes.

With thousands of former residents of Christchurch now living in Australia, Red Cross is helping lead an information session on 25 October for people who are still recovering physically, emotionally and socially from the devastating earthquakes.

A name scrawled on a tattered piece of paper, a photo posted on a noticeboard in a remote refugee camp – both can hold the key for Red Cross staff and volunteers working in countries around the globe to uncover the fate of the some of the world’s countless missing people.

Haiti's main physical rehabilitation centre will open its doors today for the first time since it was seriously damaged in the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left 1.5 million people homeless.

In Port-au-Prince for the opening, David Brown, leader of the Australian Red Cross International Disability Forum, said the centre had been rebuilt with more than $2 million in support from the global Red Cross Movement, including $700,000 from Australian Red Cross.

Australian Red Cross has sent a cargo of relief supplies to help communities in Fiji recover from last week's severe floods.

Australian Red Cross has sent a cargo of relief supplies, including hygiene kits, kitchen sets and water storage and filtration equipment, to help communities in Fiji recover from last week's severe floods.

Red Cross International Emergencies Manager, Stephen Ray, said the relief items would be distributed by Fiji Red Cross to the worst affected people in Sigatoka, Lautoka, Nadi, Ba, Tavua and Rakiraki.

Cleaning up after a flood can be a physically and emotionally demanding job.

THURSDAY MARCH 8, 2012

As the flood threat in New South Wales and northern Victoria moves westwards, Red Cross Emergency Services personnel are helping those communities where people are able to return to their homes to clean-up and begin the recovery process.

Andrew Coghlan, Red Cross National Emergency Services Manager, said cleaning up after a flood can be a physically and emotionally demanding job.

Thursday February 2, 2012

Victorians can now fill out a Red Cross fire plan online. Victorians who rely on others to help them leave early before a high fire risk day - and those assisting them to leave early - can now fill out a Red Cross fire plan online.

The Red Cross 'Bushfires - Preparing to leave early' plan is designed for people who need extra support to leave early, according to Red Cross State Manager for Emergency Services Adam Dent.

For affected communities, the recovery challenge continues one year on from the Victorian floods

For many communities in northern and western Victoria this week marks the one year anniversary of the worst of the 2011 floods and the largest Red Cross relief and recovery program in Victoria since the Black Saturday bushfires.

Red Cross Executive Director Victoria, Toni Aslett, said many Victorians in flood affected communities were still doing it tough and had a long way to go in their recovery journey.

Australian Red Cross aid workers will be helping out across the globe in disaster, conflict and development zones this festive season.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 20, 2011

Peter Giugni will be setting up the ICRC's first regional office in Afghanistan's volatile Khost province. A world away from the turkey and tinsel of an Antipodean Christmas, Australian Red Cross aid workers will be helping out across the globe in disaster, conflict and development zones this festive season.