Gustave Moynier was a Swiss jurist who was active in many charitable organizations in Geneva.
Gustave Moynier
Monument to Moynier in Geneva's Parc des Bastions
Image: ICRC HQ Geneva Foyer Gustave Moynier Henry Dunant
Image: ICRC HQ Geneva Foyer Henry Dunant Gustave Moynier
International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross 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.
Henry Dunant, author of A Memory of Solferino
Original document of the first Geneva Convention, 1864
The Red Cross in action in 1864
Memorial commemorating the first use of the Red Cross symbol in an armed conflict during the Battle of Dybbøl (Denmark) in 1864; jointly erected in 1989 by the national Red Cross societies of Denmark and Germany