International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
International humanitarian movement
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering. The Movement has seven fundamental principles that inform its activities: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. The Movement contributed to the meeting of the first and subsequent Geneva Conventions, and the foundation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The Geneva Conventions created the international treaties and humanitarian laws that primarily govern war-time conduct, which the ICRC helped to develop. The ICRC supplies aid to war-impacted areas, promotes humanitarian standards, and reviews compliance with the Geneva Conventions and humanitarian law...
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