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... > contexts > population characteristics > socioeconomic factors > poverty > religious and secular charities > International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies  

Definition

  • Poverty would not immediately seem to be the focus of the International Red Cross. However, addressing poverty’s causes is directly linked to the Red Cross’s mission of responding to natural or human-made calamity. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-N52VCKNL-C

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