Question

Who founded the International Red Cross?
1. John Bryant
2. Lord Dawson
3. J.D. Rockefeller
4. Henry Dunant

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Henry Dunant
Explanation:

• The Red Cross came into being at the initiative of a man named Henry Dunant.
• He helped wounded soldiers at the battle of Solferino in 1859.
• Then lobbied political leaders to take more action to protect war victims.
• His two main ideas were for a treaty that would oblige armies to care of all wounded soldiers and for the creation of national societies that would help the military medical services.

• The headquarters of the International Red Cross Committee is located in Geneva, Switzerland.
• The International Committee Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and a three-time Nobel Prize laureate.
• States Parties (signatories) to the 1949 Geneva Convention and its 1977 Additional Protocols (Protocol I, Protocol II) and 2005 gave the ICRC a mandate to protect victims of foreign and internal armed conflict.
• The ICRC, along with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and 192 National Societies, is a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
• It is the oldest and most respected movement organization and one of the world's most known organizations, having received three Nobel Peace Prizes in 1917, 1944, and 1963.