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The Henry Dunant Medal is the highest award of the Red Cross Movement. It is named after Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross Movement. The medal is presented every two years by the Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. This body represents the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the various National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

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Henry Dunant Medal

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Henry Dunant Medal is the highest award of the Red Cross Movement. It is named after Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross Movement. The medal is...

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Henry Dunant

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Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 – 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist...

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Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

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serving. The Standing Commission is also responsible for giving out the Henry Dunant Medal (the Movement's highest award) and the Red Cross Red Crescent Prize...

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Satya Paul Agarwal

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control activities and the tsunami of 2004 for which he was awarded the Henry Dunant Medal. He has also written several books and articles. He is the spokesperson...

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Princess Gina of Liechtenstein

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suffrage in Liechtenstein. In 1987, the Princess was awarded the Henry Dunant Medal by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Princess Gina was...

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Joseph Adefarasin

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He was the first African to hold this position and was awarded the Henry Dunant Medal, which is the highest World Red Cross award. He was married to Hilda...

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John MacAulay

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Foundation of the International College of Surgeons 1973 - awarded the Henry Dunant Medal, the highest honor the Red Cross can award, at the 22nd International...

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List of humanitarian and service awards

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awards List of awards for contributions to society "Medals and Badges: Florence Nightingale Medal". British Red Cross. Retrieved 17 October 2010. Nansen...

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Leslie de Barra

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story was broadcast by Raidió Teilifís Éireann In 1979 she won the Henry Dunant Medal which is the highest award of the Red Cross Movement. De Barra and...

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Michael Bothe

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– Elizabeth Haub Prize (in the field of environmental law) 2017 – Henry Dunant Medal Michael Bothe, Kay Hailbronner, Eckart Klein, Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum...

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Jean Pictet

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Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including posthumously in 2005 the Henry Dunant Medal, the highest award of the movement. The bilingual, international Jean-Pictet...

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Gustave Moynier

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Guillaume-Henri Dufour, and he was also a major rival of the founder Henry Dunant. During his record long term of 46 years as president, he did much to...

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Myanmar Red Cross Society

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throughout the country. A member of Myanmar Red Cross Society won Henry Dunant Medal in 1977 for saving a soldier whose car fell into the Ayeyarwady River...

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Louis Appia

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requested to join the "Committee of Five" in order to examine the ideas of Henry Dunant and work towards their possible implementation. He therefore became one...

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Shimelis Adugna

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failing to do what we should be doing!” Shimelis Adugna was awarded the Henry Dunant medal for outstanding humanitarian service, the highest award given by the...

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Jim Carlton

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Red Cross, receiving the Red Cross Movement's highest honour, the Henry Dunant Medal. As a founder of the Crossroads Group together with John Hyde and...

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1863 in science

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Cross is held in Geneva, Switzerland, following the lead of humanitarian Henry Dunant. William Banting publishes Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public...

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Henry Pomeroy Davison

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of Chicago Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-226-68038-5. Moorehead, Caroline, Dunant's Dream, Carroll & Graf, New York, 1998, p.259 Forsythe, David P., The Humanitarians...

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Tenzing Norgay

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In 1952, he took part in the two Swiss expeditions led by Edouard Wyss-Dunant (spring) and Gabriel Chevalley (autumn), the first serious attempts to climb...

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YMCA

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truly global movement with an international headquarters was led by Henry Dunant, Secretary of YMCA Geneva, who would later go on to found the International...

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List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates

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The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant, who shared a prize of 150,782 Swedish kronor (equal to 7,731,004 kronor...

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List of Nobel laureates

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field of economics. Each recipient, a Nobelist or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money which is decided annually by the Nobel Foundation...

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Nobel Prize

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deaths each year. The first Nobel Peace Prize went to the Swiss Jean Henri Dunant for his role in founding the International Red Cross Movement and initiating...

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