International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement committee adopted the name "International Committee of the Red Cross" (ICRC), which is still its official designation today. Five years later, the American Red Cross was founded through the efforts of Clara Barton. More and more countries signed the Geneva Convention and began to respect it in practice during armed conflicts. In a rather short period of time, the Red Cross gained huge momentum as an internationally respected movement, and the national societies became increasingly popular as a venue for volunteer work. When the first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901, the Norwegian Nobel Committee opted to give it
Red Cross Society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Red Cross Society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea The Red Cross Society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK RCS; ) is the national Red Cross Society of North Korea. It was founded as the Red Cross Society of North Korea on 18 October 1946. It was admitted into the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on 11 May 1956. This admittance had a great symbolic importance, as the North Korean regime remained outside most international organizations for decades. However, the DPRK RCS has been called "a misleadingly named state agency" by "The