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WORLD CAMPAIGN OF THE RED CROSS AND THE RED CRIMINAL “THE WORLD IS OURS. YOU ARE ON THE GO. ”
It's time for action!
"Hope. Something we talk about all the time, but what does it mean? For the Red Cross, hope is an action. An action to protect those who need help today. An action to protect people tomorrow. In 2009. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which unites 186 countries around the world, has launched a global campaign to speak the same language with the message: "The world is ours. You're on the move! "The time for action has come."
Bekele Geleta, gen. Secretary of the IFRC / PE
Ten years after the "Power of Humanity" campaign "The world is ours. You are on the move." appears as a general call for action by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the entire Red Cross movement. The aim of the campaign is to involve society to the greatest extent in supporting and improving the lives of vulnerable people. The three-year campaign (2009-2011) goes beyond the three anniversaries in the history of the International Red Cross, which we will celebrate in 2009 - 150 years since the Battle of Solferino, 90 years since the founding of the ICRC and 60 years since the signing of the Geneva conventions and their Additional Protocols. This is an opportunity for the Movement to unite its forces around the leading humanitarian challenges of our time and to encourage everyone to do a good deed, to "give their course" to make the world a better place to live. The campaign will remind that the Red Cross movement is more than a gathering of national societies and governing bodies - together we are the world's largest humanitarian network and the Red Cross needs to strengthen its role as a partner of society and social structures. The current campaign aims to promote a culture of prevention. By investing in prevention, we will give people the tools they need to protect their families and their future. By focusing on planning instead of seeking responsibility, we will show the world how disasters and epidemics can be reduced and crises avoided. Today, the Red Cross is forced to act and pursue its mission in a changed environment. Modernity offers new humanitarian challenges to the followers of Henri Dunant. The campaign defines these new humanitarian challenges and calls on people to join the humanitarian idea, to rediscover Solferino Today.
Key messages of the campaign:
Global priorities:
At the global level, the campaign focuses on the culture of prevention as the most effective way to save lives and improve the quality of life of vulnerable groups against the background of growing crises related to climate change, economy, epidemics, violence and more. The campaign has the ambition to provide better protection for people during wars by effectively enforcing the norms of international humanitarian law.
Priorities of national companies:
The National Societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent set their own priorities to direct their "moves" to make our world better. The ICRC sets some of the leading humanitarian challenges facing the organization in the 21st century. These include: access to food and water, volunteering, adapting to climate change in the face of humanitarian consequences, changing public attitudes to prevent violence and discrimination, providing access to health care, first aid, reuniting families separated by time of armed conflicts, prevention of socially significant diseases - malaria, HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, etc. Based on the global platform of the campaign "The world is ours. You are on the move! ”, The national companies run their own campaigns, which start on May 8, 2009. Thanks to the established strategic partnership with the international communication company McCann, the national companies follow a common vision, which they adapt. They attract celebrities and their own partners and sponsors to support their initiatives.
Initiatives within the 2009 campaign:
The ICRC, in partnership with McCann, has set up a dedicated web portal for the campaign. Each national company can join by describing its initiatives within the campaign. The site depicts the globe in the form of a puzzle, parts of which are mixed up. The idea is to work together to "clean up" our shuffled planet and make it a better place to live. Anyone who wants to join the campaign can do so by registering at www.ourworld-yourmove.org , describe in a few sentences the good deed he has done and move one of the pieces of the puzzle, so in reality and in cyberspace he will declare his move and join the Red Cross cause. The system automatically sends a link to itself to all recipients in the mailbox of the last user of the site.
BRC joined the global campaign of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement "The world is ours. You are on the move "
Sofia
May 8, 2009
The three-year campaign of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement “The world is ours. You are on the move ”starts on May 8 - World Red Cross Day. The Bulgarian Red Cross gave a special press conference. The global goal of the initiative is to promote the culture of prevention as an effective way to save lives, as well as to improve the quality of life of vulnerable groups against the background of climate change, economy, epidemics, violence. The priorities of the campaign in Bulgaria are the development of volunteering among young people, their involvement in humanitarian causes, tuberculosis prevention, acquisition of first aid skills and road safety for children. Among the priorities is the support of homeless children accommodated in shelters and centers for integration of the Bulgarian Red Cross. The face of "The world is ours. You are on the move" for Bulgaria is Grandmaster Veselin Topalov. With the move of the pawn, the world chess champion started the global campaign. "I am honored to be the face of the campaign. I accepted the invitation without thinking, because the cause is attractive. Such an invitation is not refused. The pawn is the weakest figure, but this move I made is one of the most aggressive. and I hope this campaign is really very successful. The weakest figure can be turned into a queen. So a person - no matter how weak, small and insignificant, can do a lot for the world. All charitable causes are good and I "When I have the opportunity, I always try to help," said Veselin Topalov. He also made a virtual move on a special web portal for the campaign. "arrange the planet and make it a better place to live. Topalov sent an SMS to charity number 1255 for the cause.
The President of the Bulgarian Red Cross Hristo Grigorov presented Veselin Topalov with a plaque "130 years of the Bulgarian Red Cross" and a bear - a symbol of the campaign. Awards were also given to 17 national media and journalists for fruitful cooperation with the organization and contribution to the dissemination of Red Cross ideas.
The goals of the campaign and the activity of the Bulgarian Red Cross for the period 2005-2008 were presented by the leadership of the Bulgarian Red Cross to representatives of the diplomatic corps in our country at a festive meeting.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Celebrates 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Solferino with a Series of Events
Solferino-Geneva
June 23 - July 3, 2009
The area of Solferino in Italy, the birthplace of the Red Cross idea, gathered thousands of young people, representatives of 150 national societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent from around the world. Under the motto "Youth in Action", the participants will spend four days exchanging experiences in their work on HIV / AIDS prevention, mitigating the humanitarian consequences of climate change, solving problems related to migration and discrimination, etc. The aim of the initiative is to engage the world's youth with the humanitarian challenges of our time. On an area of 200 thousand square meters, the young people will form a tent camp - the so-called humanitarian village, which will host several spectacular events: Third World Youth Meeting / June 23-28 /. During the series of seminars and meetings, young people will exchange information and discuss various current topics related to climate change, social justice, gender equality, the role of social media and more. The idea is to recreate Solferino 150 years later so that young people can engage and mobilize their own potential in response to the greatest humanitarian challenges facing humanity. Humanitarian Boulevard / June 24-27 /. The line of checkpoints and information corners on the unique "humanitarian boulevard" in the open air aims to present various initiatives of youth organizations of the Red Cross and Red Crescent from around the world. Numerous pavilions and exhibitions will be built, promoting various activities of the young Red Cross - preparation and assistance in disasters, health prevention and safety, humanitarian values and more. On June 26, a training game will be held related to emergency preparedness and first aid.
Funeral procession with candles - Fiaccolata / June 27 /. The evening mourning procession with candles will once again follow in the footsteps of those who carried the wounded soldiers from the battlefield in Solferino to the first medical center in Castiglione. The procession is traditional for celebrating the anniversaries of the Battle of Solferino. It is expected that in 2009 it will become a large-scale event with the participation of hundreds of young people, Red Cross and volunteers. Journey of the oath declaration / June 28 - July 3 /. Nearly 300 young Red Cross members will follow in the footsteps of Henri Dunant from Solferino to Geneva. During their three-day trip (two hours a day on foot, and the rest of the time by bus), they will promote the humanitarian values of the Red Cross movement. On July 2, in Geneva, young Red Cross members from around the world will officially present their sworn declaration, symbolically carried in the footsteps of Dunant, the Swiss authorities and UN representatives. In the symbolic declaration, they commit themselves on behalf of the world's Red Cross youth to give their answer and contribute to solving the humanitarian challenges of our time and to promoting the humanitarian partnership in the world. The initiatives in Solferino of the International Movement "The world is ours. You are on the move! ” A representative group of young people from the Bulgarian Youth Red Cross is taking part in them, which will take part in all jubilee events.
Solferino gathered the color of the young Red Cross
Solferino - Geneva
June 28-July 3, 2009
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the idea of the Red Cross, the small village of Solferino in northern Italy hosted the World Youth on the Move, which brought together more than 600 representatives of 150 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. The meeting was attended by Petar Petrov - Chairman of the Bulgarian Red Cross, Natalia Zlatarska - Member of the Operational Bureau of the Bulgarian Red Cross, Andrian Georgiev - a longtime volunteer and Ana Izvorska - Expert "Organizational Development" in the Directorate "Bulgarian Red Cross". Organizations of the National Red Cross participated in the so-called "workshops" on various topics: violence prevention, anti-discrimination, introduction to humanitarian law, HIV / AIDS prevention, disaster risk reduction, first aid policies and others. As a result of the work and recommendations made by the "workshops", the participants prepared a declaration in which they made certain commitments and set out the recommended priorities for the work of youth structures in national societies. After the meeting "Youth on the Move" from June 29 to July 3, 2009 was held the initiative "The Way of an Idea" - a march in the footsteps of Henri Dunant to Geneva. Anna Izvorska was a representative of the Bulgarian Red Cross. The main purpose of the event was to officially present the youth declaration of the leadership of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The program in Geneva included a visit to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Museum of the International Red Cross Movement. In parallel with the "Youth on the Move" another event is organized - "Humanitarian Village". Representatives of the Bulgarian Red Cross were Atanas Tsvetanski - Director of the Bulgarian Red Cross, Hristo Paunov - Deputy Chairman of the Plovdiv Red Cross and four representatives of the Bulgarian Red Cross - Burgas. The main activities of the national companies and their good practices were presented. The program highlighted the "workshops" for response to accidents and disasters.
It's time for action!
"Hope. Something we talk about all the time, but what does it mean? For the Red Cross, hope is an action. An action to protect those who need help today. An action to protect people tomorrow. In 2009. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which unites 186 countries around the world, has launched a global campaign to speak the same language with the message: "The world is ours. You're on the move! "The time for action has come."
Bekele Geleta, gen. Secretary of the IFRC / PE
Ten years after the "Power of Humanity" campaign "The world is ours. You are on the move." appears as a general call for action by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the entire Red Cross movement. The aim of the campaign is to involve society to the greatest extent in supporting and improving the lives of vulnerable people. The three-year campaign (2009-2011) goes beyond the three anniversaries in the history of the International Red Cross, which we will celebrate in 2009 - 150 years since the Battle of Solferino, 90 years since the founding of the ICRC and 60 years since the signing of the Geneva conventions and their Additional Protocols. This is an opportunity for the Movement to unite its forces around the leading humanitarian challenges of our time and to encourage everyone to do a good deed, to "give their course" to make the world a better place to live. The campaign will remind that the Red Cross movement is more than a gathering of national societies and governing bodies - together we are the world's largest humanitarian network and the Red Cross needs to strengthen its role as a partner of society and social structures. The current campaign aims to promote a culture of prevention. By investing in prevention, we will give people the tools they need to protect their families and their future. By focusing on planning instead of seeking responsibility, we will show the world how disasters and epidemics can be reduced and crises avoided. Today, the Red Cross is forced to act and pursue its mission in a changed environment. Modernity offers new humanitarian challenges to the followers of Henri Dunant. The campaign defines these new humanitarian challenges and calls on people to join the humanitarian idea, to rediscover Solferino Today.
Key messages of the campaign:
- Everyone can contribute to make the world a better place;
- The Red Cross is a movement with a network of millions of volunteers;
- One movement can change the world;
- The Red Cross is ready;
- Small actions - big changes.
Global priorities:
At the global level, the campaign focuses on the culture of prevention as the most effective way to save lives and improve the quality of life of vulnerable groups against the background of growing crises related to climate change, economy, epidemics, violence and more. The campaign has the ambition to provide better protection for people during wars by effectively enforcing the norms of international humanitarian law.
Priorities of national companies:
The National Societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent set their own priorities to direct their "moves" to make our world better. The ICRC sets some of the leading humanitarian challenges facing the organization in the 21st century. These include: access to food and water, volunteering, adapting to climate change in the face of humanitarian consequences, changing public attitudes to prevent violence and discrimination, providing access to health care, first aid, reuniting families separated by time of armed conflicts, prevention of socially significant diseases - malaria, HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, etc. Based on the global platform of the campaign "The world is ours. You are on the move! ”, The national companies run their own campaigns, which start on May 8, 2009. Thanks to the established strategic partnership with the international communication company McCann, the national companies follow a common vision, which they adapt. They attract celebrities and their own partners and sponsors to support their initiatives.
Initiatives within the 2009 campaign:
- 90 years since the establishment of the IFRC / PE in Paris:
- 150 years since the Battle of Solferino
- Closing meeting
The ICRC, in partnership with McCann, has set up a dedicated web portal for the campaign. Each national company can join by describing its initiatives within the campaign. The site depicts the globe in the form of a puzzle, parts of which are mixed up. The idea is to work together to "clean up" our shuffled planet and make it a better place to live. Anyone who wants to join the campaign can do so by registering at www.ourworld-yourmove.org , describe in a few sentences the good deed he has done and move one of the pieces of the puzzle, so in reality and in cyberspace he will declare his move and join the Red Cross cause. The system automatically sends a link to itself to all recipients in the mailbox of the last user of the site.
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BRC joined the global campaign of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement "The world is ours. You are on the move "
Sofia
May 8, 2009
The three-year campaign of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement “The world is ours. You are on the move ”starts on May 8 - World Red Cross Day. The Bulgarian Red Cross gave a special press conference. The global goal of the initiative is to promote the culture of prevention as an effective way to save lives, as well as to improve the quality of life of vulnerable groups against the background of climate change, economy, epidemics, violence. The priorities of the campaign in Bulgaria are the development of volunteering among young people, their involvement in humanitarian causes, tuberculosis prevention, acquisition of first aid skills and road safety for children. Among the priorities is the support of homeless children accommodated in shelters and centers for integration of the Bulgarian Red Cross. The face of "The world is ours. You are on the move" for Bulgaria is Grandmaster Veselin Topalov. With the move of the pawn, the world chess champion started the global campaign. "I am honored to be the face of the campaign. I accepted the invitation without thinking, because the cause is attractive. Such an invitation is not refused. The pawn is the weakest figure, but this move I made is one of the most aggressive. and I hope this campaign is really very successful. The weakest figure can be turned into a queen. So a person - no matter how weak, small and insignificant, can do a lot for the world. All charitable causes are good and I "When I have the opportunity, I always try to help," said Veselin Topalov. He also made a virtual move on a special web portal for the campaign. "arrange the planet and make it a better place to live. Topalov sent an SMS to charity number 1255 for the cause.
The President of the Bulgarian Red Cross Hristo Grigorov presented Veselin Topalov with a plaque "130 years of the Bulgarian Red Cross" and a bear - a symbol of the campaign. Awards were also given to 17 national media and journalists for fruitful cooperation with the organization and contribution to the dissemination of Red Cross ideas.
The goals of the campaign and the activity of the Bulgarian Red Cross for the period 2005-2008 were presented by the leadership of the Bulgarian Red Cross to representatives of the diplomatic corps in our country at a festive meeting.
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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Celebrates 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Solferino with a Series of Events
Solferino-Geneva
June 23 - July 3, 2009
The area of Solferino in Italy, the birthplace of the Red Cross idea, gathered thousands of young people, representatives of 150 national societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent from around the world. Under the motto "Youth in Action", the participants will spend four days exchanging experiences in their work on HIV / AIDS prevention, mitigating the humanitarian consequences of climate change, solving problems related to migration and discrimination, etc. The aim of the initiative is to engage the world's youth with the humanitarian challenges of our time. On an area of 200 thousand square meters, the young people will form a tent camp - the so-called humanitarian village, which will host several spectacular events: Third World Youth Meeting / June 23-28 /. During the series of seminars and meetings, young people will exchange information and discuss various current topics related to climate change, social justice, gender equality, the role of social media and more. The idea is to recreate Solferino 150 years later so that young people can engage and mobilize their own potential in response to the greatest humanitarian challenges facing humanity. Humanitarian Boulevard / June 24-27 /. The line of checkpoints and information corners on the unique "humanitarian boulevard" in the open air aims to present various initiatives of youth organizations of the Red Cross and Red Crescent from around the world. Numerous pavilions and exhibitions will be built, promoting various activities of the young Red Cross - preparation and assistance in disasters, health prevention and safety, humanitarian values and more. On June 26, a training game will be held related to emergency preparedness and first aid.
Funeral procession with candles - Fiaccolata / June 27 /. The evening mourning procession with candles will once again follow in the footsteps of those who carried the wounded soldiers from the battlefield in Solferino to the first medical center in Castiglione. The procession is traditional for celebrating the anniversaries of the Battle of Solferino. It is expected that in 2009 it will become a large-scale event with the participation of hundreds of young people, Red Cross and volunteers. Journey of the oath declaration / June 28 - July 3 /. Nearly 300 young Red Cross members will follow in the footsteps of Henri Dunant from Solferino to Geneva. During their three-day trip (two hours a day on foot, and the rest of the time by bus), they will promote the humanitarian values of the Red Cross movement. On July 2, in Geneva, young Red Cross members from around the world will officially present their sworn declaration, symbolically carried in the footsteps of Dunant, the Swiss authorities and UN representatives. In the symbolic declaration, they commit themselves on behalf of the world's Red Cross youth to give their answer and contribute to solving the humanitarian challenges of our time and to promoting the humanitarian partnership in the world. The initiatives in Solferino of the International Movement "The world is ours. You are on the move! ” A representative group of young people from the Bulgarian Youth Red Cross is taking part in them, which will take part in all jubilee events.
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Solferino gathered the color of the young Red Cross
Solferino - Geneva
June 28-July 3, 2009
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the idea of the Red Cross, the small village of Solferino in northern Italy hosted the World Youth on the Move, which brought together more than 600 representatives of 150 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. The meeting was attended by Petar Petrov - Chairman of the Bulgarian Red Cross, Natalia Zlatarska - Member of the Operational Bureau of the Bulgarian Red Cross, Andrian Georgiev - a longtime volunteer and Ana Izvorska - Expert "Organizational Development" in the Directorate "Bulgarian Red Cross". Organizations of the National Red Cross participated in the so-called "workshops" on various topics: violence prevention, anti-discrimination, introduction to humanitarian law, HIV / AIDS prevention, disaster risk reduction, first aid policies and others. As a result of the work and recommendations made by the "workshops", the participants prepared a declaration in which they made certain commitments and set out the recommended priorities for the work of youth structures in national societies. After the meeting "Youth on the Move" from June 29 to July 3, 2009 was held the initiative "The Way of an Idea" - a march in the footsteps of Henri Dunant to Geneva. Anna Izvorska was a representative of the Bulgarian Red Cross. The main purpose of the event was to officially present the youth declaration of the leadership of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The program in Geneva included a visit to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Museum of the International Red Cross Movement. In parallel with the "Youth on the Move" another event is organized - "Humanitarian Village". Representatives of the Bulgarian Red Cross were Atanas Tsvetanski - Director of the Bulgarian Red Cross, Hristo Paunov - Deputy Chairman of the Plovdiv Red Cross and four representatives of the Bulgarian Red Cross - Burgas. The main activities of the national companies and their good practices were presented. The program highlighted the "workshops" for response to accidents and disasters.
