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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian network, helping people in around 150 countries. Founded in 1919, the Geneva-based Federation brings together 192 Red Cross and Red Crescent ...
In 1863, Swiss businessman Henri Dunant helped found a humanitarian relief organization in Geneva after he saw thousands of wounded soldiers suffering without care during a battle in Solferino (in what is today northern Italy). That organization, the ...
GENEVA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies elected a U.S. candidate on Monday as its new president after an acrimonious meeting that nearly saw the vote postponed amid a controversy involving a rival ...
The 1986 foundational statutes of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement proclaim that: “International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies together constitute ...
Khatib, stressed that the humanitarian need in the Gaza Strip is no less urgent and desperate now than it was before the ceasefire, and that citizens in the Strip are suffering from psychological shock and extreme despair,
New York (Reuters) - The American Red Cross risks damaging the reputation of the global Red Cross brand because of its refusal to stop accepting donations from tobacco companies, a top official with the humanitarian network said. These concerns are ...
GENEVA: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Tuesday it was “horrified” after five Sudanese Red Crescent volunteers were killed while on duty in Bara, North Kordofan state.
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