International Animal Protection Organizations
I. World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is the world's largest and most experienced independent non-governmental environmental protection organization, formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). ). Founded in 1961, it is headquartered in Switzerland. WWF currently operates in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa through a global network of 27 national members, 21 program offices and 5 affiliate member organizations, and has established strong partnerships with international and local governments and other international agencies since 1980.
WWF's ultimate goal is to halt and ultimately reverse the accelerating deterioration of the Earth's natural environment and to help create a better future in which people live in harmony with nature. To achieve this, WWF aims to protect nature and ecological processes by preserving the diversity of genes, species and ecosystems, ensuring the sustainable use of renewable natural resources now and in the future, reducing pollution, and halting the overexploitation and consumption of natural resources and energy. The main objectives are to:
1. Conserve the world's biological diversity;
2. Ensure the sustainable use of renewable natural resources;
3. Promote actions to reduce pollution and wasteful consumption.
There are numerous activities carried out, including wildlife conservation work such as our giant panda protection program.
Swiss headquarters
Address: Hohlstrasse 110, Postfach, 8010 Zürich
Tel: 01 297 21 21
Website:
Tenth, Animal Asia Foundation (AAF)
Animal Asia Foundation is a government-registered charity, the founder is Jill-Robinson (formerly of IFAW Asia representative), was established in 1998, headquartered in Hong Kong, and in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom to set up offices. Animals Asia is dedicated to saving and helping wild, domesticated and endangered animals in Asia.
Main mission: To improve the lives of animals in Asia. We work in partnership with local civil society and governments to create positive solutions to protect animals from cruelty.
Principal Objective: To protect animals in Asia from cruelty and to promote the message of love and respect for animals and life. Animals Asia believes that increased love and care for animals reduces the chances of them being abused, and in turn can teach people how to care for animals.
The main campaigns are: Start with Me, Save the Asiatic Bears, Support Dr. Dog, and Donate to the "Best Friend or Bite" program.
Hong Kong Headquarters:
Address: P.O. Box 374, General Post Office, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2791-2225
Fax: (852) 2791-2320
Email: info@animalsasia.org
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical aid organization that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
The organization is committed to providing basic medical services to people at risk around the world, and is currently engaged in emergency relief and long-term assistance in more than 80 countries. Since 1996, with the cooperation of relevant medical departments in Guangxi, the organization has carried out long-term basic assistance (mainly for tuberculosis prevention and treatment, training of village doctors and birth attendants) in Gongdong and Dainian in Rongshui County, where 40 foreign medical personnel have been working on a voluntary basis. The number of people receiving assistance locally is 40,000, and each year about 1,000 people receive hospitalization with their financial support, and about 200 tuberculosis patients receive follow-up treatment. In addition, they have trained 30 village doctors and 42 midwives.
International Red Cross
Anywhere in the world, wherever "natural disasters" or "man-made disasters" strike, we can see a dazzling flag flying over it, with a red cross on a white background as its symbol. This is the flag of the International Red Cross. The arrival of the Red Cross cannot prevent the continuation of wars or the occurrence of disasters, but she is the protector of the masses of people affected by disasters, and she is the savior of the soldiers who have fallen into the pool of blood on both sides of the war.
The International Red Cross was founded in 1863, and her founder is the Swiss Henri? The founder was the Swiss Henri Dunant.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, there were frequent wars in Europe, and on June 24, 1859, Dunant passed through the town of Solferino in northern Italy, and was caught up in a fierce battle between the allied forces of France and Sardinia and the Austrian army, with the battlefield littered with corpses, and the dead and wounded amounting to more than 40,000, and the wounded and helpless were struggling painfully under the scorching sun, and he organized the inhabitants to rescue the wounded and bury the corpses. It was at this time that a great vision sprang up in his mind. He appealed to the international community to formulate an international law to implement humanitarianism for prisoners of war on both sides of the war, to ensure the neutrality of the wounded, and in the event of war, to make every effort to rescue the wounded and reduce the number of deaths, irrespective of nationality, ethnicity and beliefs. This humanitarian proposal won wide ****soundings in Europe, and the Public **** Welfare Society of Geneva, Switzerland, elected Henri? General Dufour, Jonstaffe Moynier, and Louis Moynier. Moynier, Louis Dupuy, M.D., and Theodore D. Moynier. Louis Appiah, M.D., Theodore Monois, M.D., and Henri M. Mougins. Louis Appiah, M.D., Theodore Monois, M.D., and Henri Dunant. Dunant formed a committee of five, which met for the first time in Geneva on February 17, 1863, and thus the predecessor of the International Committee of the Red Cross was established.
On October 26, 1863, delegates from 16 European countries met in Geneva for the first time at a diplomatic conference and unanimously adopted the Red Cross Resolution, deciding to set up ambulance corps in their respective countries, with the emblem of the Red Cross on a white background (the Swiss flag is a white cross on a red background) as a token of respect for Switzerland. Between August 8 and 22, 1864, the Red Cross Convention was signed, which stipulated that hospitals and personnel conducting ambulance services on the battlefield would be neutral and protected, and that the sick and wounded should be cared for without distinction between friend and foe. Thus, Henry Dunant's ideal of an ambulance corps was realized. This was the birth of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant's ideal ambulance organization, and the Geneva Conventions, an international agreement. Subsequently, at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, Red Cross societies were established in major countries in Europe, the United States and Asia. China's Red Cross was also born in Shanghai in 1904, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) notified all countries on January 15, 1912, that it officially recognized the Red Cross Society of China as a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The Red Cross emblem is only a symbol for conveying a specific message in armed conflict, a protective emblem, which does not contain any political, religious, philosophical or other various meanings. However, on the eve of the Russian-Turkish War of 1876-1878, the Turkish Ottoman Empire informed the ICRC that they would adopt the Red Crescent to mark their own ambulances, but would still respect and protect enemy ambulances bearing the Red Cross emblem, the reason they gave being " ...... 'Red Cross' is an offense to Muslim soldiers ......". And Turkey also stated that it could not force its military to respect the Geneva Conventions if its proposed changes were not accepted. In this way, Turkey unilaterally changed the terms of Article 9 of the 1864 Geneva Convention. As war was imminent, and in view of the urgency of aiding wounded soldiers, the International Committee of the Red Cross temporarily accepted the Red Crescent emblem. At the International Diplomatic Conference held in 1929, the Red Crescent emblem was officially recognized as a legally valid emblem, but it was emphasized that the Red Cross and Red Crescent emblems were not religious in any way. The Red Crescent emblem is now used by more than 20 Arab countries and some Islamic countries in the world.
For more than 100 years, the remarkable contribution of the Red Cross has given the emblem great appeal and authority. With the development of Red Cross member countries, the mission of the Red Cross has begun to evolve from a single war injury relief to assistance in natural disasters, first aid for accidental injuries, voluntary blood transfusion, social welfare, and the development of friendship and cooperation among Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world, to strengthen the forces of peace and to promote the development of the cause of human progress, and so on. In order to commemorate Dunant's great contribution to the cause of the world Red Cross, the Executive Council of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Society decided in 1948 to designate Henri Dunant's birthday - May as his birthday. Dunant's birthday - May 8 as the International Red Cross Day.