Today is World Red Cross Day

Since 1953, every year on the 8th May the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. It is the birthday of the founder of the International Society of the "Red Cross", Swiss humanist, social activist and Nobel Prize winner Henri Dunant (1828-1910), according to RIA Novosti. They were organized to help the wounded in the Battle of Solferino in 1859, one of the bloodiest battles of the nineteenth century in the Austro-Italian-French war. In the book "Memories of Solferino", he pitched the idea of the organization of the International Society of the wounded in the war. On his initiative, in 1863, a conference that marked the beginning of the International Red Cross. The official name - the International Red Cross - was in 1928 on the 13th International conference in The Hague, where he was received of the organization charter, approved the changes later in the years 1952 and 1965. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent - At the 25th QC International Conference, held in October 1986, was approved by the new name of the organization. ICRC job - providing assistance to the wounded, sick and prisoners of war during the conflict, aid to victims of natural disasters. The basic principles of the movement - the unconditional humanity, voluntary service, unity and universality.