The International Committee of the Red Cross is a humanitarian aid organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate. The organization has played an instrumental role
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
American Red Cross
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The American National Red Cross, sometimes referred to as ANRC, is an American nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness educat
International Committee of the Red Cross
…the committee adopted the name "International Committee of the Red Cross" (ICRC), which is still its official designation today. Five years later, the American Red Cross was founded through the efforts of Clara Barton. More and more countries signed the Geneva Convention and began to respect it in practice during armed…
American Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
American Red Cross workplace, Memphis TN, c. 1898
U.S. stamp commemorating Red Cross 50th anniversary, issue of 1931
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross