Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid is aid given with respect of human dignity with a spirit of human nature to people in war, disaster including natural disaster and to refugees according to laws of war and international human rights law. To this end International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNICEF and Doctors Without Borders exist.
Humanitarian Aid Media
A UNICEF worker is distributing high-calorie food during an emergency situation in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2008.
Humanitarian aid being distributed in Haiti
Henry Dunant (1828–1910), Swiss philanthropist and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1901
Henry Dunant at Solferino
Cover of the original edition of A Memory of Solferino (1862)
Original Geneva Conventions
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United Nations Headquarters, Geneva
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