Red Cross, International

Cultural  

1. An international organization, founded under the terms of the first Geneva Convention. Its original duty was to care for those who were wounded, sick, or homeless in wartime. Today, it also attends to victims of natural disasters.

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Example Sentences

Jan. 17, 2005 and donate $2 from every adult, young adult and child lift ticket to the American Red Cross International Response Fund.

From Time Magazine Archive

All of the proceeds raised from the eBay auctions will benefit the American Red Cross International Disaster Relief efforts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Being deputed by the Red Cross International Committee to visit Turkish prisoners of war in Egypt, we presented ourselves on December 3, 1916, to the officer for Naval Transport in the British office at Marseilles.

From Turkish Prisoners in Egypt A Report by the Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross by International Committee of the Red Cross

The Red Cross International Committee, at Geneva, has since the beginning of the war organised visits to the camps of prisoners of war and of civilian prisoners in the various belligerent countries.

From Turkish Prisoners in Egypt A Report by the Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross by International Committee of the Red Cross