Henry Dunant Medal
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The Henry Dunant Medal is the highest World Red Cross award. It is named after Henry Dunant
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Henry Dunant
Jean Henri Dunant , aka Henry Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern day Italy...
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Winners
- Pierre Tacier, 1969. Former ICRC Delegate "for gallantry on a battlefield". (International Review of the Red Cross, No. 611, November 1969). First person to be awarded the Medal on a non-posthumous basis.
- John MacAulayJohn MacAulayJohn Alexander MacAulay, CC was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and a volunteer worker in the Canadian Red Cross Society....
- Justice AdefarasinJustice AdefarasinJustice Joseph Adetunji Adefarasin was a Nigerian High Court judge, born in Ijebu-Ode. He was the President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from 1977 to 1981. He was the first African to hold this position and was awarded the Henry Dunant Medal, which is the...
- Phlech Phiroun, Former President of the Cambodian Red Cross
- Roger Durand, Founder and president of the Henry Dunant Society and former Vice-president of the Geneva Red Cross
- Monique Basque, 2003. Former President of the Red Cross of Côte d’Ivoire
- Frits Kalshoven, 2003. Distinguished legal scholar and a specialist in International Humanitarian Law
- André DurandAndre DurandAndré Durand is a painter working in the European Hermetic tradition. He is influenced by artists such as Rubens, Titian, Michelangelo and Velázquez....
, 2003. Former ICRC field delegate and author of a history of the ICRC and the Movement - Noreen Minogue, 2003. Former deputy Secretary General of the Australian Red Cross and renowned promoter of International Humanitarian Law
- In 2005, the volunteers and staff of the Red Cross Societies of the four countries most severely affected by the devastating tsunami of 26 December 2004—India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand
- General Björn Egge, 2005. Former President of the Norwegian Red Cross
- Christina Magnuson, 2005. Former President of the Swedish Red Cross and member of the Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
- Colonel Dr. Mekonnen Muluneh, 2005. Of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society
- Dr. Jean PictetJean PictetJean Simon Pictet was a Swiss jurist, expert in international humanitarian law and senior staff member and Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. He was the main architect of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I and Protocol II...
, 2005 (posthumously). Main architect of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and former Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). - James Joseph Carlton, 2007. Former secretary general of the Australian Red CrossAustralian Red CrossThe Australian Red Cross is one of the many national Red Cross societies around the world. The Australian organisation was established in 1914, nine days after the commencement of World War I, by Karen Tenenbaum, when she formed a branch of the British Red Cross.the organisation grew at a rapid rate...
and Australian Minister of Health from 1982 to 1983 - Christoph Hensch, 2007. Former ICRC delegate and survivor of the tragic attack on the Red Cross hospital in the Chechen town of Novye AtagiNovye AtagiNovye Atagi is a village in Shalinsky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia, located twenty kilometres south of Grozny. Population: 8,741 .-External links:**...
, in 1996 - Alexander Dumba Ika, 2007. Former head of the Congolese Red Cross tracing service in Ituri and head of the ICRC delegation in BuniaBuniaBunia is a city in Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the headquarters of Ituri Interim Administration in the Ituri region of Orientale Province....
- Josiane Gabel, 2007. Former French Red Cross delegate in Congo and in ChadChadChad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...
and National First Aid Director of the Red cross of ChadRed Cross of ChadRed Cross of Chad also known as CRC was founded in 1983.It has its headquarters in N’Djamena-External links:**... - Dr. Ahmad Abu Goura
- Dr Abdul Aziz Mudarris won the Henry Donant medal in 1983, for having established the Saudi Red Crescent in Saudi Arabia in 1962,he was the first President of the Saudi Red Crescent
- Datuk Datin Paduka Ruby Lee, 2009. Former Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) secretary-general.