The International Red Cross Movement has decided not to suspend the membership of the Russian Red Cross, despite potential violations of the rules of neutrality revealed by an investigation conducted by a group of international media outlets.
Source: The Guardian
Details: The investigation revealed numerous violations of the Red Cross charter by the Russian organisation since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the umbrella organisation for national societies, has the right to suspend the membership of those who violate the principles of neutrality and independence of the Red Cross, and it did so against the Belarusian branch last year.
However, after a four-day meeting of IFRC representatives in Geneva, it was decided not to suspend the Russian Red Cross, but only to create an oversight body and ask it to “address the identified problems and alleged violations” of the principles of integrity.
The investigation, published last month by a group of news outlets, including the Guardian, was partly based on a series of leaked Kremlin documents that revealed plans to fund Red Cross branches in occupied Ukrainian territory.
It also revealed that the heads of regional Red Cross branches spoke of the need for a war against “Ukrainian Nazis” and that uniformed Red Cross workers often attended military training events for children.
Earlier this year, the Russian Red Cross signed a memorandum of cooperation with Artek, a youth camp in annexed Crimea where some of the children deported from Ukraine were sent. Konstantin Fedorenko, the head of Artek, is subject to US and EU sanctions.
Background:
- Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliamentary) Commissioner for Human Rights, has accused the International Federation of the Red Cross of “turning into an advocate for Russian criminals”.
- T he IFRC suspended the activities of the Belarusian Red Cross last year after it became known that its chairman had worn the letter Z [a symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine] and expressed support for the abduction of Ukrainian children.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/30/7453552
Yet another “neutral” organisation that is totally rotten and needs disbanding. How the hell can this organisation exist if it allows clear genocide to happen under its nose?
Beats me. I do understand they didn’t want to cut ties with their Russian branch, but a suspension would have been totally in order, even necessary. What kind of a signal does this send? That the Red Cross’ values are optional, not binding, obviously. When rotten attitudes are plain to see for everybody, an organisation needs to act decisively or else its reputation goes down the drain!
Its reputation disappeared a long time ago. Read this article, you will see just how rotten this organisation is.
https://lesiadubenko.substack.com/p/inside-the-russian-red-cross-scandalous
Oh, I’ve read stories about other Red Cross scandals before, like about the Haiti help rip off, I’m aware that the organisation is in a steady decline. Thus my call for a new leadership. 🙁
I believe 25% of the funds for Haiti disappeared into the pockets of Red Cross officials.
That’s how brands wreck their reputation. When such atrocities happen, there can be only one reasonable reaction: “Not in our name!” Any false tolerance leds the moral corruption spread and thus is the road to ruin. With this leadership, the Red Cross is doomed. Change urgently needed!
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“US temporarily approves energy transactions with major Russian banks”
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/30/7453599/
I don’t for the life of me understand why this is necessary. This is moral, legal, and ethical depravity.😠
The Red Cross has already outed itself to be an immoral, nefarious, and corrupt international organization, like so many others. It’ll be an icy day in hell if I should ever donate a penny to them.