The Red Cross and voluntary service

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When trying, in very popular terms, to explain what the Red Cross is, we sometimes define it in three ways: it is an emblem, a symbol, protecting or designating a movement; it is a world organization with 230 million members, almost all of them volunteers, brought together into 126 National Societies; but it is also an ideal, inspiring action to make this ideal a reality, based on a firm belief in a global, human solidarity, active in the fight against suffering.

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The Red Cross and voluntary service author: Henrik Beer

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Voluntarism within the Red Cross author: Marion Harroff-Tavel

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The Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross (III) author: Jean Pictet

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Appointment to the Executive Board author:

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Africa—Asia—Latin America—Middle East author:

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The Eleventh Inter-American Red Cross Conference author:

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Eleventh Conference of Arab Red Crescent and Red Cross Societies author:

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