Red Cross
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in wich Poland participates or participated

International Red Cross and Red Crescent

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers worldwide who started to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering, without any discrimination based on nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.
The often-heard term International Red Cross is actually a misnomer, as no official organization as such exists bearing that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations that are legally independent from each other, but are united within the Movement through common basic principles, objectives, symbols, statutes, and governing organs. The Movement's parts:
- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), founded in 1863 by Henry Dunant.
- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, founded in 1919
- National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, existing in nearly every country in the world.
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Polonica stamps:

Denmark 1966, 20 I