Italian Red Cross

Title: Italian Red Cross Category: Health Care Clicks: 0 Listing added: Mar 3, 2008 PageRank: 3/10

The Italian Red Cross was born in 15 June 1864 in Milan, 2 months before the signing of 1st Geneva convention, and was the natural developing of Milanese Medical Committee founded by Cesare Castiglioni and others meritorious citizens. Milan become immediately the first promoter of Red Cross principles in Italy. Today the International Movement of Red Cross and Red Crescent is the world largest humanitarian network, it includes 120 million volunteers in 178 national societies, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross.