During World War I Eleanor Roosevelt volunteered with the Red Cross. The First World War liberated Eleanor Roosevelt and her potential for service. In addition to organizing the Roosevelt ...

Mercy dogs didn’t need orders, medals, or parades—they just saw a man bleeding in the mud and ran straight into gunfire to ...

The Red Cross, accused of not doing enough to help hostages in Gaza or Palestinian detainees in Israel, has defended itself ...

Novelist Ernest Hemingway, at just 18 years old, was wounded on the Italian front while driving an ambulance for the American Red Cross on this day in history, July 8, 1918.

One of this meeting's goals is to approve a motion seeking a formal recommitment to international humanitarian law, fixed in the wake of the atrocities of World War Two.

World Red Cross Day aims to increase public awareness about the needs of people affected by war, disaster, conflict and other emergencies. This significant day also aims to encourage individuals ...

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross ... Gaza war is world's 'moral failure', Red Cross chief says. By Emma Farge. December 19, 2023 4:39 PM UTC Updated December 19, 2023 ...

Over the next century and a half, Red Cross and Red Crescent groups have been present at virtually every conflict – the group’s World War One archives alone contain details on more than 2 ...

Red Cross volunteers packed bandages, sewed pajamas, fed soldiers, hosted fundraisers, and donated, collected and transported blood to help win World War II.

My sister and I recently unearthed a forgotten box of correspondence our mom received from servicemen she'd met at Red Cross dances in Rome near the end of the war. She would have been 100 this year.

By 1942, with so many men away at war, this Richmond hub was employing tens of thousands of women. That year, they hired their first ever Black female welder: Frances Albrier. At 44, Albrier had ...

During the war, the number of roundups increased and Jews were systematically deported to concentration and extermination camps, cut off completely from the outside world. In December 1939, the ...