World Red Cross Red Crescent Day In Action
May 15th 2008Drug InformationAid / Disasters
Today, as the American Red Cross joins other Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies around the world in responding to the cyclone in Myanmar, it also marks the birth of Henry Dunant, the founder of what is today known as the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Moved by the atrocities he witnessed during the Battle of Solferino in 1859, Dunant began advocating for the humane treatment of the sick and wounded during wartime.
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