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    Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 – 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist...
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    The Henry Dunant Medal is the highest award of the Red Cross Movement. It is named after Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross Movement. The medal...
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    were wounded on the battlefield. In June 1859, the Swiss businessman Henry Dunant travelled to Italy to meet French emperor Napoléon III with the intention...
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  • Dunant may refer to: Henry Dunant (1828–1910), Swiss businessman, social activist and humanitarian Olivier Dunant, Swiss treasurer Dunant, a submarine...
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    The Henry Dunant Museum is a museum in the Swiss town of Heiden, to preserve the memory and legacy of Henry Dunant, the Founder of the Red Cross Movement...
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  • States (Virginia Beach) with France (Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez). Named for Henry Dunant, it was announced by Google in 2018 and went live in 2020. In July 2018...
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    on the battlefield. A devout Calvinist, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant, traveled to Italy to meet then-French emperor Napoleon III in June 1859...
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    depicted also in a 2006 television drama Henry Dunant: Du rouge sur la croix (English title: "Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross"), which tells the story...
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    Guillaume-Henri Dufour, and he was also a major rival of the founder Henry Dunant. During his record long term of 46 years as president, he did much to...
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    1901 Nobel Peace Prize (category Henry Dunant)
    Peace Prize 1901 nobelprize.org Henry Dunant – Facts nobelprize.org "Henri Dunant". Encyclopedia Britannica. "Henry Dunant (1828-1910)". icrc.org. 6 April...
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  • serving. The Standing Commission is also responsible for giving out the Henry Dunant Medal (the Movement's highest award) and the Red Cross Red Crescent Prize...
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    truly global movement with an international headquarters was led by Henry Dunant, Secretary of YMCA Geneva, who would later go on to found the International...
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  • The Henry Dunant Foundation, based in Geneva, awards two prizes each year to individuals who contribute to promoting the ideas of Henry Dunant, the founder...
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    conflicts is addressed by the 1925 Geneva Protocol. The Swiss businessman Henry Dunant went to visit wounded soldiers after the Battle of Solferino in 1859...
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    A Memory of Solferino (category Henry Dunant)
    (French: Un souvenir de Solférino) is a book of the Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant published in 1862. It proved decisive in the founding of the International...
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    monuments of the Husainid dynasty. Swiss businessman and humanitarian Henry Dunant (1828–1910), who visited Dar al-Taj upon its completion by Mohammed Bey...
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    world in a way that no one, let alone Dunant, could have foreseen nor truly appreciated at the time. To start, Dunant was able to profoundly stir the emotions...
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    requested to join the "Committee of Five" in order to examine the ideas of Henry Dunant and work towards their possible implementation. He therefore became one...
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    in the Swiss village of Heiden, the Henry Dunant Museum was opened to preserve the memory and legacy of Dunant himself. As specified by the Geneva Conventions...
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    celebrated on 8 May every year. This date is the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, who was born on 8 May 1828 at Geneva, Switzerland, and died on 30 October...
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    Henry Dunant, co-founder of the Red Cross...
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    v t e Laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize 1901–1925 1901: Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy 1902: Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat 1903: Randal Cremer 1904: Institut...
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  • Timmermann is a German scholar of international law. She was awarded the Henry Dunant Prize 2006 for her thesis "Incitement, Instigation, Hate Speech and War...
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    1901, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Red Cross founder, Henry Dunant. Passy died in 1912 after a long period of illness and incapacitation...
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    were officially established in 1666–67. The founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, spent his last years in Heiden. The former president of the ICRC, Jakob...
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    superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering (backup). Dunant, Henry; Dunant, Henry; Dunant, Henry (1986). A Memory of Solferino (Repr ed.). Geneva: International...
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    Innocence International Red Cross and Red Crescent: Recipient of the Henry Dunant Medal Codrington, Andrea (29 April 1999). "TALKING DESIGN WITH: Princess...
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    played Don Pedro in La Reine morte which is an adaptation of the play by Henry de Montherlant. Nominated in the best actor category at the Menton International...
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    politician Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont (1759–1829), Genevan political writer Henry Dunant (1828–1910), founded the Red Cross, first recipient of Nobel Peace Prize...
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    Röntgen Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Emil von Behring Sully Prudhomme Henry Dunant; Frédéric Passy — 1902 Hendrik Lorentz; Pieter Zeeman Emil Fischer Ronald...
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