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Deadline for application: 25 July 2021
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Location: Brussels
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The Red Cross EU Office helps to coordinate relations between its member organisations and EU decision-makers and stakeholders, sharing their extensive expertise in supporting vulnerable people and communities within and outside the EU.
On behalf of Red Cross EU Office members, the head of the migration unit leads strategic and
operational engagement with EU institutions and partners in the area of migration, with the overall
aim of strengthening influence and mobilising resources.
S/he provides analysis, guidance and
support on EU legislation, policy and funding related to migration.
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01/02/2021 - by the Climate Centre
The Red Cross Red Crescent has published a new checklist for greening the Movement, strengthening its environmental sustainability and supporting advocacy. The Green Response Working Group (GRWG) – a coalition of National Societies, IFRC and ICRC representatives – last month released a new report,
Red Goes Green, drawing on interviews across the Movement as well as with environmental experts and local humanitarian actors. Its findings and recommendations were used to develop the checklist for Movement components and other agencies. “Climate change and environmental degradation are increasing the world’s vulnerability and exposure to risks, disproportionately impacting the most vulnerable communities,” the report says, adding that “the humanitarian community has a responsibility to support vulnerable communities to increase their resilience to the impacts of the climate and environmen
Red Alert: National Red Cross Societies managing disaster risks in Europe
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Climate change will increasingly lead to extreme weather events and natural hazards – from heavy floods to deadly heatwaves and forest fires. Disasters already impact hundreds of millions of people worldwide every year, killing tens of thousands. In the European Union (EU), this kind of emergencies cost over 90,000 lives and EUR 500 billion of economic losses between 1980 and 2017. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the consequences of not being adequately prepared, and has provided lessons for future preparedness beyond the known and expected risks.
Across Europe, National Red Cross Societies and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are stepping up efforts to manage disaster risks, rather than disasters: from awareness-raising to better preparedness, strengthened anticipation capacity and early action for more frequent, intense and catastrophic