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75th anniversary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Mario Villarroel Lander
Mario Villarroel Lander*
Affiliation:
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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This year, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has celebrated an important anniversary. Seventy-five years ago, five men from five different Societies — American, British, French, Italian and Japanese — sat together to forge a union of Societies around the world, a global consortium united in its quest to serve humanity. Decades later, with a membership of 162 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, a total of 124 million individual members and 250,000 employees, the Federation has marked 75 years of response to the suffering of humankind. Now some changes are in order to help us meet our humanitarian goals. Yet our mission, governed by the fundamental principle of humanity, the cornerstone of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, remains constant.

Type
The Red Cross, the Red Crescent and Vulnerable Communities
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 34 , Special Issue 301: On the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , August 1994 , pp. 315 - 317
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1994

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