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Humanity
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent
Movement, born of a desire to bring assistance without discrimination
to the wounded on the battlefield, endeavours, in its international
and national capacity, to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever
it may be found. Its purpose is to protect life and health and to
ensure respect for the human being. It promotes mutual understanding,
friendship, cooperation and lasting peace amongst all peoples.
Analysis of the Fundamental Principle of Humanity
The text under the Fundamental Principle of Humanity includes the
following elements:
- it recalls the origins of the Movement: "born of a desire
to bring assistance without discrimination to the wounded on the
battlefield";
- it recalls the double dimension of the Movement: the
national and the international one;
- it defines the mission of the Movement: "to prevent and
alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found";
- it defines the purposes of the Movement:
- to protect life and health;
- to ensure respect for the human being;
- to promote mutual understanding, friendship, cooperation and
lasting peace amongst all peoples.
Consequences of the Fundamental principle of Humanity
The consequences of the principle of Humanity are not so much boundaries
and guidelines for the action, as the other Fundamental Principles
are: the principle of Humanity is rather a constant reminder of
what the objectives of the Movement are. The principle of Humanity
expresses what the Movement places beyond anything else: the need
to act in order to prevent and alleviate human suffering.
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