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Greater solidarity for a more humane approach to development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Cornelio Sommaruga
Cornelio Sommaruga*
Affiliation:
International Committee of the Red Cross
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“To unite Red Cross Societies throughout the world in a concerted effort to prevent, mitigate and alleviate the suffering caused by disease and major disasters”. This was the primary aim of the League of Red Cross Societies (now the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) whose seventy-fifth anniversary we have just celebrated. The League, it will be recalled, was founded in response to the wishes of National Red Cross Society leaders and eminent representatives of the medical world — inspired by President Woodrow Wilson's ideals — to submit to Societies programmes of action in the general interest of humanity and coordinate their efforts in dealing with the scourges of that time.

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. 311 - 314
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1994

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