New Red Cross Red Crescent report warns the impact of Europe’s ‘worst humanitarian crisis’ in 60 years could be felt for decades
Rome/Geneva: 10 October 2013: With many European countries still in the grip of the economic crisis, a new report from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today reveals that the humanitarian impact could be felt for decades to come. A recent survey which mapped the responses of 42 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to the crisis shows that millions have fallen into poverty and that, despite an upturn in the economy in…