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125th Anniversary of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: The International Red Cross

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Bernard Chenot
Bernard Chenot*
Affiliation:
Secretary for life French Académic des Sciences morales et politiques
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Abstract

The commemoration of the 125th Anniversary of the Movement will last until October 1989 and will provide a unique opportunity to make the general public, and especially young people, aware of the ideals and the humanitarian activities of the Red Cross and Red Crescent; it must also be a time to reflect upon the task accomplished by the Movement in 125 years of existence and on its prospects for the future.

Type
125th Anniversary of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 28 , Issue 263 , April 1988 , pp. 141 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1988

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Footnotes

*

Based on the text of a lecture given in December 1986 to the annual public meeting of the Academic des Sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France.

In October 1986, the Twenty-fifth International Conference of the Red Cross adopted new statutes for what is now known as the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. This movement, which is also known as the International Red Cross, consists of the recognized National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

References

1 Mohammed Ben Bella, leader of forces fighting for Algerian independence against the French. While flying from Morocco to Tunisia in 1956, his aircraft was forced by the French to land in Algiers and he was then interned in France until Algerian independence in 1962.