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The 2024 Council of Delegates resolution mandates the RCRC Movement to address harmful information that undermines principled humanitarian action.

How the Movement Hub on Harmful Information emerged from fragmented responses to a coordinated initiative, launched in April 2026 by the Swiss Red Cross.

Harmful information creates five types of harm to populations and threatens humanitarian organisations’ ability to serve those in need.

Harmful Information (HI) is an umbrella term for any spread of information that puts people affected or humanitarian workers at risk of harm.