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		International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in
		In 2000, a new neutral "red crystal" emblem for States and for the Red Cross movement was finally agreed upon.
		Largely a result of ARC efforts, in December 2003, the 28th session of the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement adopted a resolution affirming their commitment to find comprehensive and lasting solutions to the issues surrounding the Movement's emblems and related laws.
	www.adl.org /main_Israel/israel_red_cross.htm (944 words)

	Why War? Keywords: International Red Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The International Red Cross observers in the city said the Wafa al-Qaed water treatment plant, which i...
		The movement consists of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and 178 individual national societies.
		The organisation is currently (as of 2003) facing the unwillingness of some nations to accept the Red Cross or the Red Crescent emblems.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/organizations/International_Red_Cross (680 words)

	American Red Cross - St. Louis Area Chapter
		The Red Cross is responsible for half of the nation's blood supply and blood products.The Red Cross gives health and safety training to the public and provides emergency social services to U.S. military members and their families.
		The Red Cross idea was born in 1859, when Henry Dunant, a young Swiss man, came upon the scene of a bloody battle in Solferino, Italy, between the armies of imperial Austria and the Franco-Sardinian alliance.
		Humanity: The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, born of a desire to bring assistance without discrimination to the wounded on the battlefield, endeavours, in its international and national capacity, to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found.
	www.redcrossstl.org /faqs.aspx (1737 words)

	International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Summary
		The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement whose stated mission is to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering, without any discrimination based on nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.
		One major obstacle was that the Nazi-controlled German Red Cross refused to cooperate with the Geneva statutes including blatant violations such as the deportation of Jews from Germany and the mass murders conducted in the concentration camps run by the German government.
		The Red Cross is defined as a protection symbol in Article 7 of the 1864 Geneva Convention, Chapter VII ("The distinctive emblem") and Article 38 of the 1949 Geneva Convention ("For the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field").
	www.bookrags.com /International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement (9785 words)

	International Committee of the Red Cross - History of Organization
		This international «Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field» included provisions guaranteeing neutrality for medical personnel and equipment and officially adopting the red cross on a field of white as the identifying emblem.
		The International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC], a private, independent group of Swiss citizens chosen by co-optation (limited to twenty-five in number), acts during war or conflict whenever intervention by a neutral body is necessary, such action constituting its special field of activity.
		Geneva, ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross], 1961.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1917/red-cross-history.html (1077 words)

	Chemung - Schuyler Chapter - Red Cross. Elmira, NY
		The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, born of a desire to bring assistance without discrimination to the wounded on the battlefield, endeavours, in its international and national capacity, to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found.
		Today, the Red Cross emblem is used to identify and protect medical and relief workers, military and civilian medical facilities in combat zones, mobile units, and hospital ships.
		To honor the Swiss origin of this initiative, the symbol of a red cross on a white background (the reverse of the Swiss flag) was adopted.
	www.redcrosselmira.org /document.htm (2872 words)

	American Red Cross - Preparing Communities for an Emergency and Keeping People Safe - Preparedness
		The American Red Cross Board of Governors has unanimously approved Mark W. Everson, currently serving as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to become the next president and CEO of the Red Cross, effective May 29, 2007.
		The roles that American Red Cross staff take on in providing services to members of the military and their families abroad are varied, but the core meaning is the same – to keep soldiers connected with family in times of emergency.
		The American Red Cross is rapidly expanding its disaster response in the wake of a powerful Nor’easter that swept across the Mid-Atlantic and New England states Sunday, leaving heavy snow, extensive flooding and widespread power outages.
	www.redcross.org (409 words)

	International Red Cross Movement :: Belorussian Red Cross
		The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies works on the basis of the Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to inspire facilitate and promote all humanitarian activities carried out by its member National Societies to improve the situation of the most vulnerable people.
		The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance.
		Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
	belredcross.org /en/catalog/view_2.html (345 words)

	Red Cross Services
		The Red Cross may also help those needing long-term recovery assistance when all other available resources, including insurance, government, private, and community assistance, are either unavailable or inadequate to meet the needs.
		Often, the term “International Red Cross” is used incorrectly in the public domain when referring to one of the many organizations who make up the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
		The Red Cross mission is to keep the American people in touch with their family members serving in the armed forces.
	www.dayton.oh.redcross.org /services.htm (526 words)

	American Red Cross Delmarva Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		International Committee of the Red Cross Based on the Geneva Conventions and other agreements, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) acts as the lead agency for the Movement during times of armed conflict.
		The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) is the membership association and international coordination arm for national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies throughout the world.
		The American Red Cross, and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement as a whole, avoids publicly assigning fault or judging the behavior of governments with respect to violations of IHL.
	www.redcrossdelmarva.org /redcrossrole.html (1807 words)

	Internation Red Cross
		IRC President Paul Ruegger cabled the North Korean government leaders at Pyongyang to inform them that IRC delegates would inspect North Korean prison camps although that nation had not signed the 1949 Geneva Convention.
		The International Red Cross and the many national Red Cross organizations significantly contributed to the humanitarian treatment of prisoners, civilians and wounded allies.
		The International Red Cross Committee in Geneva 1863-1943 (1943).
	korea50.army.mil /history/factsheets/redcrint.shtml (1114 words)

	Australian Red Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) was founded in 1919 in Paris in the aftermath of World War I. Originally known as the League of Red Cross Societies it was renamed in October 1983 as the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
		Australian Red Cross is one of the 185 members of the Federation and provides domestic services to meet local need in each state and territory.
		Australian Red Cross is one of the 185 members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
	www.redcross.org.au /aboutus_default.htm (666 words)

	CNN.com - Red Cross vows to remain in Iraq - Oct. 29, 2003
		The international Red Cross said Wednesday it would cut back on its international staff in Iraq, but remain in the country for the sake of the Iraqi people despite the suicide bombing on its Baghdad headquarters.
		The Red Cross, one of the few agencies that stayed in Iraq throughout the U.S. attack on the country last spring, said it was shocked by the attack because it maintains strict neutrality.
		Red Cross delegates devote much of their time to visiting prisoners held by occupation forces and the Iraqi police -- a main part of the agency's mandate under the Geneva Conventions on warfare and occupation.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/10/29/sprj.irq.red.cross.ap (632 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The American Red Cross has withheld its annual dues of $5 million since 1999 because Israel's Magen David Adom — or Red Shield of David — is excluded from membership of the 178-nation federation.
		All members of the International Committee of the Red Cross use a red cross or, in Muslim countries, a red crescent as their emblem.
		Red Cross leaders say the solution to Israeli membership should avoid a proliferation of emblems while maintaining respect for the protective nature of the Red Cross as well as the Red Crescent used by the Muslim world.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/11/09/redcross.htm (448 words)

	Why War? Keywords: International Red Cross
		The International Committee for the Red Cross, which has limited visits to the detainees, condemned the regime at Camp D...
		Christen, a spokesman for the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross.
		...of Switzerland, the former president of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/read.php?offset=45&id=146&sortby= (717 words)

	SB Red Cross: FAQs
		The Red Cross gives health and safety training to the public and provides emergency social services to U.S. military members and their families.
		In October 1863, The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement was created in Geneva, Switzerland, to provide nonpartisan care to the wounded and sick in times of war.
		International disaster relief workers are drawn from a pool of paid and volunteer staff with extensive prior experience.
	www.sbredcross.org /faqs/index.htm (1868 words)

	Lake County Red Cross -- International Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		What is commonly called the International Red Cross is really two cooperative organizations: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
		The American Red Cross fully recognizes that, at this point, we only have a process for the recognition of MDA and not a guaranteed outcome.
		The American Red Cross is committed to a close working relationship with MDA and remains steadfast in its support of MDA's quest for full recognition by the Movement and voting membership in the Federation.
	www.lakecountyredcross.org /icrc.htm (1053 words)

	The Red Cross Visit to Theresienstadt on June 23, 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Red Cross was aware of the camps from the beginning of the war and they began sending packages to the inmates of the major Nazi concentration camps, starting in August 1942; by February 1943 the Red Cross was sending packages to all the Nazi concentration camps.
		According to the Red Cross statistics, 99% of the American Prisoners of War in the German POW camps returned home after the war, due largely to the packages containing food and typhus vaccine which were delivered from America by the Red Cross right up to the end of the war.
		The Soviet Union did not allow the Red Cross in any of their camps during the war because they had not signed the 1929 Geneva convention and they were not required to open their gulags (concentration camps) or Prisoner of War camps for inspection.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /CzechRepublic/Theresienstadt/TheresienstadtGhetto/History/RedCrossVisit.html (2356 words)

	International Red Cross Principles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Red Cross is an international organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and societies in more than 150 countries around the world.
		Begun in 1859 by Henry Durant, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is mandated, in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, to serve as a neutral intermediary in times of world conflict.
		The International Red Cross movement, born of a desire to bring assistance without discrimination to the wounded on the battlefield, endeavors, in its international and national capacity, to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found.
	chapters.redcross.org /ga/negeorgia/orientation_manual_05.htm (320 words)

	Red Cross: Iraqi Treatment "Tantamount To Torture" - May 10, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		MAY 10--A Red Cross report contends that mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners was widespread and not just "individual acts" as repeatedly claimed by President George Bush.
		Noting that various "methods of physical and psychological coercion" used by military officials were "tantamount to torture," the International Committee of the Red Cross concluded that many detainees had been deprived of their liberty in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
		As seen in the below excerpts, the Red Cross report details the interrogation methods used in facilities like the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, where military intelligence officers plied their trade.
	www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/0510042icrc1.html (169 words)

	American Red Cross International Services
		The American Red Cross works with a global network of Red Cross, Red Crescent and equivalent societies to restore hope and dignity to the world's vulnerable people.
		This international Red Cross movement brings emergency relief to disaster victims, and improves basic living conditions of those in deprived areas of the world.
		The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, born of a desire to bring assistance without discrimination to the wounded on the battlefield, endeavors, in its international and national capacity, to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found.
	www.mohawkvalleyredcross.org /services/international.html (497 words)

	American Red Cross: Donate Now
		The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors—down the street, across the country and around the world—in emergencies.
		Your local Red Cross chapter is committed to meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in your area, be it in disaster preparedness, disaster response, first aid and CPR training, or disease prevention.
		The value of your donation is increased by the fact that the ratio of volunteer Red Cross workers to paid staff is almost 36 to one.
	american.redcross.org /site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_subsrc= (742 words)

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