Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In his book published soon after the massacre, the Israeli journalist Amnon Kapeliouk of Le Monde Diplomatique, arrived at about 2,000 bodies disposed of after the massacre from official and Red Cross sources and "very roughly" estimated 1,000 to 1,500 other victims disposed of by the Phalangists themselves to a total of 3,000–3,500. [83]
Under his leadership, Saba acquired THINQ Learning Solutions in May 2005, [10] Centra Software in 2006 [11] [12] and Pedagogue Solutions and Comartis in June 2011. [13] Yazdani stepped down as CEO in 2013 when Saba was acquired by Vector Capital. [14] The following year, Yazdani agreed to an SEC-negotiated claw back of $2.5 million in bonuses.
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.
The worldwide structure of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross make this service possible. When new information from former Soviet Union archives became available in the 1990s, a special unit was created to handle World War II and Holocaust tracing services.
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.
The German Red Cross (DRK) was founded in 1921, bringing together various independent Red Cross associations that had previously operated autonomously within the German states. These regional branches trace their origins back to the former independent members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
The International Committee of the Red Cross [a] (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate. The organization has played an instrumental role in the development of rules of war and promoting humanitarian norms.
Sheba, [a] or Saba, [b] was an ancient South Arabian kingdom in modern-day Yemen [3] whose inhabitants were known as the Sabaeans [c] or the tribe of SabaŹ¾ which, for much of the 1st millennium BCE, were indissociable from the kingdom itself. [4]