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    The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is a worldwide humanitarian aid organization that reaches 160 million people...
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  • Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), is an international membership organization that unites 191 Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and...
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    In 1983, the League was renamed to the "League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies" to reflect the growing number of national societies operating under...
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    national Red Cross societies. Based on his recommendation, the League of Red Cross Societies was founded on May 15, 1919, by the societies of Great Britain...
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    affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the United States movement to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent...
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    Nigerian Red Cross Society was established by an Act of Parliament in 1960 and became the 86th Member – National Society of the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent...
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    Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (then the League of Red Cross Societies) was granted on 8 April 1921. Following the statutes of the International...
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    studied by the League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS), renamed the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in 1991. Two years...
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  • cessation of hostilities, the League of the Red Cross (now the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies) was formed, and the role of national...
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  • relief agency, made up of 24 cantonal leagues, five rescue organizations, three foundations and two societies. The Swiss Red Cross was established on 17...
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    René Sand (category Free University of Brussels (1834–1969) alumni)
    social workers in Belgium and was appointed secretary-general of the League of Red Cross Societies in 1921. Sand was arrested by the Gestapo in September 1944...
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    the world. The majority of active voluntary Red Cross members are part of the five voluntary societies of the German Red Cross. Bereitschaften (disaster...
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    bona fide member of the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on September 17, 1947. Since 2004, the chairman of the PRC Board of Governors is Senator...
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  • Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (previously known as the League of Red Cross Societies). It...
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    David Henderson (British Army officer) (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
    After the war Henderson was the first Director-General of the League of Red Cross Societies. David Henderson was born in Glasgow on 11 August 1862 into...
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    International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement "Lebanese Red Cross". (pdf) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Retrieved on...
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    Katherine Olmsted (category American Red Cross personnel)
    conditions. She also served as the director of public health nursing with the League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva, Switzerland. Born on February 15,...
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    August organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies, the International Committee for Russian Relief...
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    factions. The camp was established in December 1949 by the League of Red Cross Societies in order to accommodate the Palestinian refugees suffering from...
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  • League of Peace) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, sometimes known as the International League of Red Cross Societies...
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    1970 Bhola cyclone (category Environment of Bangladesh)
    immediate needs, well short of the target of US$29.2 million. By the end of November, the League of Red Cross Societies had collected US$3.5 million...
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    Henry Pomeroy Davison (category Presidents of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
    wanted the League of Red Cross Societies to supersede the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in controlling the Red Cross action in international...
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    Basil O'Connor (category Presidents of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
    American Red Cross and from 1945 to 1950 he was chairman of the League of Red Cross Societies. Daniel Basil O'Connor was born January 8, 1892, in Taunton...
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  • organizations who are members of laureate organizations such as the Brazilian Red Cross being part of the League of Red Cross Societies when it won the 1963 Nobel...
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    Jean de Muralt (category Presidents of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
    chairman of the International League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from 1944 to 1945. He studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Berlin,...
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    1963). The third time it won, the prize was shared with the League of Red Cross Societies. There have been 19 years in which the Peace Prize was not awarded...
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  • Davison (surname) (category Surnames of English origin)
    P. Davison (1867–1922), American banker, founding father of the League of Red Cross societies Hiram Franklin Davison (1894—1974), Canadian-born World War...
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  • Claude Hill (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India)
    retirement he became Director-General of the League of Red Cross Societies and then Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. In 1892 he married Frances May...
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    laureates have received more than one prize; of the seven, the International Committee of the Red Cross has received the Nobel Peace Prize three times...
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    Elizabeth Gordon Fox (category Johns Hopkins School of Nursing alumni)
    "Report to National Committee on Meeting of Advisory Committee of the League of Red Cross Societies" American Journal of Nursing 30(2)(February 1930): 209....
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