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unusual facts about International Red Cross



Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle

When war breaks out in 1939, Candide is drafted and then captured by the Nazis, but escapes and joins the International Red Cross.

Lucile Petry Leone

Leone received the Florence Nightingale Medal of the International Red Cross, the Distinguished Service Award of the United States Public Health Service, and the Lasker Award.

Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

As a response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Foundation started Non-Believers Giving Aid and claims it raised $500K to donate to Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross for relief aid.

Walter Wojdakowski

Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, a general who was later disciplined for her role in the scandal, placed Maj. Gen. Wojdakowski at a meeting in late November at which there was extensive discussion of a Red Cross report that cited specific cases of abuse.

Yvonne Oddon

Freed by the International Red Cross, she arrived back in Paris on 14 April 1945 as part of an exchange negotiated between the Red Cross and Heinrich Himmler.


see also

Bekele

Bekele Geleta (born 1944), secretary general of the International Red Cross

Louise McManus

Florence Nightingale International Red Cross Society Citation and Medal and the

Operation Emmanuel

During the first phase two Russian-made MI-17 helicopters from the Venezuelan Military Search and Rescue Team flew into Colombia on December 27, 2007 at 1530 hours with the permission of the President of Colombia and with the International Red Cross (IRC) insignia for a humanitarian mission.

The first phase was to send two Mil Mi-17 helicopters to Colombia carrying five International Red Cross Committee delegates.