Henry Dunant Medal

Henry Dunant Medal

The Henry Dunant Medal is the highest World Red Cross award. It is named after Henry Dunant.

Winners

*John MacAulay
*Justice Adefarasin
*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 Durand, 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 Pictet, 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 Cross 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 Atagi, in 1996
*Alexander Dumba Ika, 2007. Former head of the Congolese Red Cross tracing service in Ituri and head of the ICRC delegation in Bunia
*Josiane Gabel, 2007. Former French Red Cross delegate in Congo and in Chad and National First Aid Director of the Red cross of Chad


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