South American countries seek unity to help Haiti
Regional meeting of leaders to focus on aid
News
AlertNet insight
Images
AlertNet insight
AlertNet insight
Blogs
Focus: Horn of Africa
ESCAPE
Thousands flee every year from Somalia, Ethiopia
OFFENSIVE
Shelling kills at least 9 in Somalia
LEND A HAND
Bomb survivors tend to IDPs
Humanitarian headlines
INTERVIEW
NATO, Afghans to hold Taliban bastion "forever"
Latest news
Breaking stories
Asia
Russia:
Activists’ Detention Unjustified
Americas
Magnitude 5.7 quake rattles southern Mexico
AlertNet insight
Americas
INTERVIEW-Help Haiti: employ its migrant workers - UN official
Aid agency news feed
Americas
Haiti, a nation in mourning
Blogs
Africa
Building homes from sticks and twigs in South Sudan
Maps
Americas
Comprehensive building damage
assessment for Port-au-Prince Commune, Haiti
AlertNet for journalists
AlertNet for journalists is a set of tools and services designed to make life easier for reporters, fact-checkers and editors when covering humanitarian emergencies.
Background on more than 80 emergencies
Which aid agencies are on the ground? Who can you call?
Weekly tips for journalists, delivered by email
Compare global humanitarian facts and figures
Keeping tabs on global trends in crisis coverage
We scour the world's media for the most interesting stories.
Improve your humanitarian reporting with our online training modules.
Putting global emergencies on the map
A reveller participates in the Red Cross Children's Carnival competition at the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain this weekend.
REUTERS/Andres De Silv
A reveller participates in the Red Cross Children's Carnival competition at the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain this weekend.
REUTERS/Andres De Silv
