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rince
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sturias
A
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1981-2014. S
peeches
Laureates. Excerpts
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement forms the largest humanitarian network
in the world that embodies, on a daily basis, the power of our humanity.
At the heart of the Movement are more than thirteen million active volunteers who
provide life-saving and life-changing services in communities across the world. In the face of wars,
disasters, poverty, violence, exclusion or stigmatisation, they show in action that we can all be part
of the solution when it comes to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people, and to make this
world a better world.
Tadateru Konoé, on
behalf of the International
Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent
Societies
—
Prince of Asturias
Award for International
Cooperation
2012
Excerpt from the speech given on
the occasion of receiving the Prince
of Asturias Award for International
Cooperation on 26/10/2012.
