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Voluntarism within the Red Cross
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
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“Tutti fratelli”, cried with emotion the women of Castiglione when, with Henry Dunant, they tended the wounded after the battle of Solferino. In this cry from the heart, this testimony to human solidarity in distress and to voluntary assistance to men who surfer, is to be found the origin of a movement which has so widely expanded during the years and which is called the Red Cross
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- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 19 , Issue 212 , October 1979 , pp. 247 - 254
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1979
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page 247 note 1 Dunant, Henry, A Memory of Solferino, Washington, D. C., The American National Red Cross, 1959, pp. 57–58.Google Scholar
page 248 note 1 Compte rendu de la Conférence Internationale réunie à Genève, les 26, 27, 28 et 29 octobre 1863 pour étudier les moyens de pourvoir à l'insuffisance du service sanitaire dans les armées en campagne, Genève, Imprimerie de Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1863, pp. 147–149.Google Scholar
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page 248 note 3 Inter-American Conferences: Res. 6/VI, Mexico, 1951; Recom. I/VIII, Bogotá, 1966.
page 248 note 4 Board of Governors: Res. 12, 23, nineteenth session, 1946; 7, 21, twenthieth session, 1948.
page 248 note 5 Geneva Convention for amelioration of condition of wounded and sick in armies in the field: art. 10/Conv. July 6, 1906; art. 10/ Conv. July 27, 1929; Art. 26/Conv. August 12, 1949.
page 249 note 1 Res. of 49th plenary meeting, November 19, 1946.
See also the declaration by Mr Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the Council of Delegates (Geneva, September 2–10, 1963): “… The essentially voluntary character of your organisation enables you to surmont difficulties that intergovernmental organisations would find intractable. For this reason, the General Assembly of the United Nations, in its very first Session in 1946, recommended that the members of the United Nations should encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorised voluntary Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and that at all times the independent and voluntary action of those Societies should be respected. The Assembly's resolution reflected the desire of the world organisation for the closest relations with the Red Cross.”
page 250 note 1 Procès-verbal de la séance du 17 mars 1863 de la Commission spéciale de la Société d'utilité publique pour les secours aux militaires blessés des armées, in Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge, No 360, décembre 1948, p. 870.
page 250 note 2 Odier, Lucie, Le principe du volontariat dans les æuvres de la Croix-Rouge en temps de guerre, in Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge, No 379, juillet 1950, pp. 506–510.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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page 252 note 1 Board of Governors, Res. VII, XXt h session, 1948.
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page 254 note 2 Ibid., p. 108.