In 1863, Swiss businessman Henri Dunant helped found a humanitarian relief organization in Geneva after he saw thousands of wounded soldiers suffering without care during a battle in Solferino (in ...
The International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies has lost 24 humanitarian aid workers in the Israel-Hamas conflict in 2024, according to president Kate Forbes’ statement on ...
Humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons founded the American National Red Cross in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 1881.
The International Federation Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that three of its volunteers have died in the DRC amid an ...
The pamphlets are specifically provided by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), not the U.S.-based American Red Cross. A spokesperson for the ICRC told Snopes by email that the ...
The three workers, who fell ill in March and died in May, were "among the first known victims of the outbreak," the Red Cross ...
Three Red Cross volunteers have died, believed to have contracted the Ebola virus during a humanitarian mission in the ...
Hamas paraded three Israeli hostages before cameras prior to turning them over to the Red Cross on Feb. 8. The three were emaciated like concentration camp survivors. They may have been the lucky ones ...