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Our world.
Your move.
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2009 it will be 150 years since a young Swiss businessman
saw people suffering and chose to take action. That man,
Henry Dunant, understood the power of an individual to
make a difference. At a battlefield in Solferino, Italy,
in 1859 he tended to the wounded and dying. He returned
home to found what is today the world’s
largest humanitarian organization, the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Movement. In its wake came the basis
of modern international humanitarian law. Ninety years
ago, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies was created to assist all people everywhere.
Sixty years ago, in 1949, the Geneva Conventions were enshrined
in law to reinforce legal protection for people affected
by armed conflict.
Henry Dunant’s drive to reach
out to his neighbouring continues today in the hearts of 97
million volunteers who work in every corner of the globe.
They are on the front line of every major humanitarian challenge
facing the world today and tomorrow — the humanitarian
consequences of climate change, migration and population movement,
epidemics and public health emergencies, disaster response,
violence in urban settings, food crisis, widespread poverty
and armed conflict.
All through 2009, the Movement and
Red Cross Red Crescent magazine will commemorate the continuing
need to take humanitarian action. The images on these pages
illustrate how one person can make a difference. And how one
Movement can change the world.
Our time is now. Our battlefield is
everywhere someone is asking for help. What will you do?
Jean-François
Berger and Rosemarie North |
This campaign is a call to action.
The world today faces unprecedented challenges and
we must all work together to addresses these challenges
and promote a culture of engagement. The ‘Our
world. Your move.’ campaign
aims to show how people worldwide are personally affected
by today’s humanitarian challenges and to highlight
what Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers and others are
doing to help. Do you have a story to tell? If so, we
want to hear from you! The campaign web portal www.ourworld-yourmove.org will allow individuals, groups and National Societies
to share their stories. |
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Emily Nuttall
waits at an American Red Cross shelter in California
during wild fires.
©TALIA
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Mobile phones
made available in Baghdad by the ICRC in collaboration
with the Iraqi Red Crescent Society so that the civilian
population could contact their relatives.
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A would-be immigrant
is carried on a stretcher after arriving at Spain’s
Canary Islands.
©REUTERS / SANTIAGO FERRERO,
COURTESY www.alertnet.org |
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A Hellenic Red
Cross worker fights a forest fire north of Athens.
©REUTERS
/ YIORGOS KARAHALIS, COURTESY www.alertnet.org |
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Iraqi refugee
children run at a private school in the Jordanian
capital, Amman.
©REUTERS
/ ALI JAREKJI, COURTESY www.alertnet.org |
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A woman sits
on sacks of food during a Red Cross distribution
in southern Ethiopia.
©REUTERS
/ JOSE CENDON, COURTESY www.alertnet.org |
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An ICRC delegate
talks with a detainee in a prison in Bolivia.
©BORIS
HEGER / ICRC |
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ICRC training
exercise with the Colombian armed forces.
©WITOLD
KRASSOWSK I / ICRC |
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A girl displaced
by conflict in Iraq drinks water from a tap in a
camp in Baghdad.
©REUTERS
/ MAHMOUD RAOUF MAHMOUD, COURTESY www.alertnet.org |
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Tens of thousands
of Peruvian earthquake survivors take shelter in
a stadium in Pisco.
©REUTERS
/ MARIANA BAZO, COURTESY www.alertnet.org |
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Myanmar Red Cross
Society volunteers distribute relief to people affected
by Cyclone Nargis.
©REUTERS
/ HO NEW, COURTESY www.alertnet.org |
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Preparations for distribution
of basic household items, with support from Sudanese
Red Crescent volunteers, Garsila, western Darfur.
©THIERRY
GASSMANN / ICRC |
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Dissemination session for
officers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's
armed forces, Uvira, South Kivu province.
©CARL
DE KEYZER / ICRC |
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This open-air surgical team,
based in Nyala, Sudan, stands ready to fly or drive
to combat zones to treat those in need.
©BORIS
HEGER / ICRC |
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Home visit by a nurse from the
Russian Red Cross.
©ZUMRAD
MAGOMEDOVA / ICRC |
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