IRRC No. 212

Voluntarism within the Red Cross

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“Tutti fratelli”, cried with emotion the women of Castiglione when, with Henry Dunant, they tended the wounded after the battle of Solferino. In this cry from the heart, this testimony to human solidarity in distress and to voluntary assistance to men who surfer, is to be found the origin of a movement which has so widely expanded during the years and which is called the Red Cross

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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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