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It has preserved this motto while other Red Cross organizations have adopted others. Due to Geneva's location in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, the ICRC is also known under its initial French name Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR). However, the ICRC has three official languages (English, French and Spanish).
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.
1981–1987: Enrique de la Mata (Spanish Red Cross) 1987–1997: Mario Enrique Villarroel Lander (Venezuela Red Cross) 1997–2001: Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (Norwegian Red Cross) 2001–2009: Don Juan Manuel Suárez Del Toro Rivero (Spanish Red Cross) 2009–2017: Tadateru Konoe (Japanese Red Cross Society) 2017–2023: Francesco Rocca (Italian ...
Hospital de la Cruz Roja; Hospital del Rey; References This page was last edited on 3 May 2024, at 21:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
La Cruz Blanca Neutral was a volunteer infirmary and relief service founded by Elena Arizmendi Mejia in 1911. [1] [2] [3] She was enrolled at the School of Nursing of the Santa Rosa Hospital (now the School of Nursing at the University of the Incarnate Word) in San Antonio, Texas when the war broke out.
Headquarters of Colombian Red Cross in Bogota. The National Society of the Colombian Red Cross was founded in 1915. The idea of founding the Colombian Red Cross was first conceived by physician and member of the National Academy of Medicine Dr. Hipolito Machado and followed by pupil and physician Adriano Perdomo.
The Red Cross symbol. The Red Cross on white background was the original protection symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva Convention. The ideas to introduce a uniform and neutral protection symbol as well as its specific design originally came from Dr. Louis Appia, a Swiss surgeon, and Swiss General Henri Dufour, founding members of the International Committee.
View of a Mexican Red Cross ambulance. The Mexican Red Cross (Spanish: Cruz Roja Mexicana) is a non-governmental humanitarian assistance organization affiliated with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to help those in dangerous situations, such as natural disasters, as well as providing human health services.