Reference :
V-P-CH-E-00806
Date :
27/11/2011
Caption :
Geneva, Bâtiment des Forces Motrices. The event organised by TEDx and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (TEDxRC2). Edna Adnan Ismail.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
ICRC website 28-11-2011
TEDxRC2: nine figures to multiply the power of humanity
More than 550 people attended the first TEDx event organized by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on Sunday 27 November in Geneva. Nine speakers stressed the importance of personal commitment in humanitarian action and the opportunities offered by new technologies in response to crises.
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TED is a non-profit organization that stages events and makes them available as webcasts in order to share ideas with the power to bring about peaceful global change. In addition to two major gatherings organized each year, in Long Beach, California and Edinburgh, Scotland, hundreds of TEDx events are held worldwide. On the eve of its 31st International Conference, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement opted for this kind of communication for the first time as a means to reflect on the future of humanitarian action.
The first speaker steps forward. Edna Adan Ismail, a courageous Somali nurse and midwife, starts telling her story. This former World Health Organization employee describes her project, a maternity hospital that has delivered 12,000 children and trained hundreds of Somali nurses and midwives: "If I can throw myself into such a project at the age of 60, then anyone can."
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Original material :
digital
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4256x2832
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
