List of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the world's largest group of non-governmental organizations working on humanitarian aid, is composed of the following bodies:

Members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

The data of the members of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies can be found on the Federation-wide Databank and Reporting System (FDRS). It provides data insights on the world's largest humanitarian network of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world.

IFRC members
  Red Cross Society
  Red Crescent Society
  Red Star of David Society (Red Crystal outside of Israel)
Non-members
  Red Cross Society
  Red Crescent Society

States which currently do not have National Societies that are active members of the IFRC

National Society is not a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

IFRC membership suspended

States which have no National Society at all

Nauru, Niue, Oman, and the Vatican City are the states without national societies, along with the states with limited recognition, such as Abkhazia, Somaliland, South Ossetia, Transnistria.

Nicaragua's National Society, Nicaraguan Red Cross, was dissolved by Nicaragua's parliament on May 9, 2023.

Former members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Former members which are now subdivisions

The German Red Cross (DRK) was founded in 1921, bringing together various independent Red Cross associations that had previously operated autonomously within the German states. These regional branches trace their origins back to the former independent members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Examples include the Badisches Rotes Kreuz, Bayerisches Rotes Kreuz, and the regional associations of Bremen, Hamburg, Oldenburg, Hesse, and Berlin. Some current subdivisions are direct continuations of these earlier organizations, while others resulted from mergers or divisions of the former members.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Understand the International Movement". British Red Cross. Retrieved 2026-07-19.
  2. 1 2 "National Societies directory". www.ifrc.org. Geneva, Switzerland: IFRC. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  3. ↑ "Federation-wide databank and reporting system". www.ifrc.org (database). Geneva, Switzerland: IFRC. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  4. ↑ "Reyði Krossur Føroya - Forsíða". Reyði Krossur Føroya. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  5. ↑ "Kryqi Kuq i Kosovës". redcross-ks.org. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  6. ↑ "Refugee Participation Network 7" (PDF). The Fearless Children of the Stone: Refugee Studies Program. Oxford. February 1990. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-01-16. Retrieved 2024-01-16. The Sahrawi Red Crescent has observer status with the League of Red Cross Societies and is the formal channel for all external assistance to the Sahrawi people, (full membership is precluded until SADR has gained membership of the United Nations).
  7. ↑ Diego Aguirre; Jose Ramón (1991). Guerra en el Sáhara Istmo ed. p. 176. ISBN 8470902520. ...in April the Sahrawi Red Crescent obtained the status of observer at the IX Congress of the Arab Red Crescent, analog to the International Red Cross, what supposed also the boycott of this reunion by Morocco.
  8. ↑ "Statement on the suspension of the Belarus Red Cross as a member of the IFRC". International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  9. ↑ "Statement on suspension of the Peruvian Red Cross as a member of IFRC | IFRC". www.ifrc.org. 2022-08-12. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  10. ↑ "Nicaragua orders closure of Red Cross in continuing crackdown". Al Jazeera. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2024.