The history of the International Committee of the Red Cross | The Laws Of War | ICRC

To know how the Red Cross movement began, this animation takes us back to 1859 and the Battle of Solferino. Swiss business man Henri Dunant witnessed the suffering of wounded soldiers left to die on the battlefield. This experience led to Dunant's vision of an organization that would care for wounded fighters regardless of which side they had been fighting on and so the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement was born and the essence of the Geneva Conventions.
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[@LM1C144]

Proud of being Red Cross volonteer

[@gilesy5]

Superb I am going to use this in my RS lesson. THanks

[@ad206]

Is this archival footage?

[@TheDuds1978]

I like to be in the red cross.

[@4441000nick]

The Redcross there the ones that will take care of us all if we fall in to trouble.

[@JamalMomani]

use it at the begining of LOAC courses Jamal

[@Elza160]

In one week it'll be 5 years since Gilad Shalit was brutaly kidnapped by hamas. Just a reminder. He was never visited by the red cross as it is said in Third Geneva Convention: "...it has to be allowed for the prisoner, to be visited by the International Committee of the Red Cross...After the war a prisoner of war should be allowed to return to his country..". The war was over long ago, Gilad still rots in underground chambers. This is on your conscience.