2. Henry Dunant

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2. Henry Dunant founder of the Red Cross
Movement

• More Humanity

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Dunants Vision

• 8 May 1828 in Geneva
• 1862 A Memory of Solferino
• 1863 ICRC founded
• 1867 Dunant leaves Geneva (bankrupt)
• 1901 1st Nobel Peace Prize
• ? 30 October 1910 in Heiden (AR).
• World Red Cross Day on 8 May in honour of
  Dunants birth

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The battle of Solferino

• A battle...
• 1859 Battle of Solferino (It.)
• Dunant organizes volunteers to help the wounded
  regardless of their nationality
• 1862 Dunant publishes A Memory of Solferino
• ... and its consequences
• 1863 ICRC founded
• 1864 1st Geneva Convention

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The founding of the Red Cross
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Late acknowledgement for Dunant

• 1895 believed dead, the founder of the Red Cross
  is rediscovered
• Numerous honours and tributes
• 1901 awarded the 1st Nobel Peace Prize
• 1948 date of Henry Dunants birth becomes World
  Red Cross Day (8 May)