Comité international de la Croix Rouge
Do you have more information about this person? Inform us!
Awarded on: December 10th, 1963
Action:
"For promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN"
Hambro: "(...) the cooperation between the Red Cross Societies of ninety different countries of different races, creeds, and color is of very real importance for international understanding and peace."
Details:
Jointly awarded with the Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies).
Awarded on: December 10th, 1945
Action:
"For the great work it has performed during the war on behalf of humanity."
Noel-Barker: "In their work for the wounded, for prisoners of war and for help to starving populations, the International Red Cross Committee’s delegates have not only upheld the great traditions which they built up in earlier times, but have far surpassed the record of achievements and services to mankind which they have previously established"
Castberg: "The Red Cross must be assumed to have found it wisest to exercise the utmost caution in order not to risk a breach of relations with Germany, which would have meant a complete halt to ICRC activities in Germany and German-occupied areas."
Details:
The International Committee of the Red Cross received the Nobel Prize of 1944 one year later, in 1945.
Awarded on: December 10th, 1917
Action:
"For the efforts to take care of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war and their families"
Swiss nomination (in part): ".. The International Committee of the Red Cross unceasingly reminds the world that the people who are now killing each other are brothers after all, and only peace can bring them the happiness they all yearn for."
French nomination: "We believe that few men (…) have done mankind so many services, and to such an extent contributed to the improvement of relations between peoples, as the zealous men who comprise the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. As President of the French Red Cross I bear personal witness to this."
Details:
The Swiss nomination was submitted on 14 January 1917 by Arthur Hoffmann, Minister of Foreign Affair. This nomination letter reached the Norwegian Nobel Committee through diplomatic channels.
The French nomination was submitted on 14 February 1917 by Louis Renault, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1907. The nomination was supported by Léon Bourgeois, Paul Deschanel, d'Estournelles de Constant, Charles Lyon-Caen, A. Weiss, Vesnitch and several others.
Sources