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Note: This flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) should be reserved for protective use during ICRC field missions. File:Emblem of the ICRC.svg should be used where an illustration or a logo of the ICRC is needed. Misuse of the emblem is prohibited by international and/or national law.
English: The official emblem of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Changed in accordance with email to the foundation found here: [1] (note: you must have access to the OTRS system in order to view this ticket.
Deutsch: Logo des Internationalen Komitees vom Roten Kreuz (IKRK), bestehend aus Roundel und englischer Abkürzung "ICRC", in Flaggenform Source SVG-Fassung erstellt durch User:Denelson83 nach GIF-Vorlage auf Wikimedia Commons (30.
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.
By the end of the 1960s, there were more than 100 societies around the world. On 10 December 1963, the Federation and the ICRC received the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1983, the League was renamed to the "League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies" to reflect the growing number of national societies operating under the Red Crescent symbol.
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The ICRC offers attractive careers for university graduates, especially in Switzerland, [64] but the workload as an ICRC employee is demanding. 15% of the staff leaves each year and 75% of employees stay less than three years. [65] The ICRC staff is multi-national and averaged about 50% non-Swiss citizens in 2004.
Among the 190 National Societies admitted to the General Assembly of the IFRC as full members or observers, about 25–30 regularly work as PNS in other countries. The most active are the American Red Cross , the British Red Cross , the German Red Cross , and the Red Cross Societies of Sweden and Norway .