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The International Labour Organization was created in 1919 by Part XIII of the Versailles Peace Treaty ending World War I. It grew out of nineteenth-century labor and social movements which culminated in widespread demands for social justice and higher living standards for the world’s working people. In 1946, after the demise of the League of…

English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1968 The Charter of Human Rights In the course of the December tenth session, I had the privilege of paying tribute to the Norwegian nation in the person of its Ring, to Alfred Nobel, founder of the Peace Prize, who died on December 10, 1896, and to all the laureates…

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French Conférence Nobel, Oslo, 11 décembre 1968 La charte des droits de l’homme Madame la Présidente, Mesdames, Messieurs, Dans la séance du 10 décembre, il m’a été donné de rendre un légitime hommage à la Nation norvégienne en la personne de son Roi, à Alfred Nobel, fondateur du Prix de la Paix, décédé le 10…

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Since the Red Cross has figured four times in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize (, , and 1963), as well as in the award to (1901), and has therefore been made the subject of various presentation speeches and Nobel lectures which give details of its inception, history, and activities, the following brief summary…

The international cooperative body for the national societies The League of Red Cross Societies was founded in 1919, the year after the end of World War I. The initiative came from Henry P. Davison, President of the American Red Cross. Experience from the war showed that the national Red Cross Societies ought to cooperate more…

Established in 1927 by the amalgamation of the Friends Foreign Mission Association (FFMA) and the Friends Council for International Service (CIS), the Friends Service Council (FSC) is the standing committee responsible for the overseas work of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain (London Yearly Meeting) and in Ireland (Ireland Yearly Meeting, formerly Dublin…

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was founded in 1917 by members of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States in order to provide young Quakers and other conscientious objectors to war with an opportunity to perform a service of love in wartime. In the ensuing years, the Committee has continued to serve…