2025 in review: a year of unprecedented humanitarian challenges

In this episode, we’re taking a step back to look at a year of enormous change and challenge for the humanitarian sector. Needs continued to rise in almost every region, while funding became more stretched, making it harder than ever to reach communities in crisis. Throughout all of this, IFRC teams and Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers have been responding to conflicts, disasters and emergencies, often in extremely difficult conditions.