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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.
The ICRC had, to some extent, valid concerns about a possible rivalry between the two organizations. The foundation of the League was seen as an attempt to undermine the leadership position of the ICRC within the movement and to gradually transfer most of its tasks and competencies to a multilateral institution.
The IFRC coordinates between National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies throughout the world. The IFRC along with ICRC supports the foundation of new National Societies in countries where no official society exists. A National Society is admitted as a member to the IFRC only after it is recognized by the ICRC.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is an independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence. It takes action in response to emergencies and at the same time promotes respect for international humanitarian law and its implementation in ...
The Standing Commission's main role is to act as the trustee of the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.The International Conference is the highest institutional body of the Movement and every four years members from the ICRC, IFRC, the National Societies as well as states and other relevant international actors meet to discuss humanitarian matters.
Other organizations and NGOs: Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) Airports Council International (ACI) Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society; Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor)
The report noted that the panel “came across” some information about abuses linked to the evictions, but the report did not describe them in detail — prompting Inclusive Development International, the NGO that helped Anuak villagers file the complaint, to claim the panel had “whitewashed damning evidence of widespread human rights ...
The code of conduct is widely used to guide conduct within humanitarian agencies. When the code was drawn up a new term was coined: Non governmental humanitarian agencies (NGHAs), to include the NGOs and the components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement which are not NGOs.