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Elena Arizmendi Mejía (1884-1949) was studying nursing at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, when the Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910. The Mexican Red Cross refused to provide first aid to the revolutionary forces, so Arizmendi Mejía dropped out of nursing school in 1911 to found La Cruz Blanca Neutral (Neutral White Cross) in Mexico City in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. One of the new organization’s first actions was to raise funds to build a field hospital at the heart of the combat zone in Ciudad Juárez. Arizmendi Mejía was also a pioneering Central American feminist and founder of Feminismo Internacional, the official journal of the International League of Iberian and Latin American Women. In 1923, she founded Las Mujeres de la Raza, an association that fought for women’s suffrage and civil rights.
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Flag of the Neutral White Cross, Mexico, 2022 © Courtesy of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva.
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Woven pot made of salvaged materials
Images, Exhibitions, Objekte, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1139/tissage.600x0.png)
Kleenex box, "Love-Yasmine-2003-ICRC"
Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1151/col-2005-35-1_a161nr.0x600.jpg)
Composition with butterfly wings
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Boots of a nurse's uniform
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Fragment of a car door shredded by a grenade
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![](/site/assets/files/1375/col-2002-37-4.0x600.jpg)
Leg prosthesis in wood and rubber
Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
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Arm prosthesis
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![](/site/assets/files/1377/col-1999-135-1-9.0x600.jpg)
Cardboard reading panel for eye test
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Dress of a nurse's uniform
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Flask of a nurse's uniform
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Tights of a nurse's uniform
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Hat of a nurse's uniform
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Armband of a nurse's uniform
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First aid kit for nurses
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Cup
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First Aid Kit
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Stretcher, first half of 20th century
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"Because of a mine you can lose a leg while playing"
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Blood transfusion service
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Casualty
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First aid kit
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HUMANITY by Henry Leutwyler
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![](/site/assets/files/1709/humanity_1.0x600.jpg)
Two columns and a fragment of marble from the Castle of the Materity of Elne
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Bullet received by ICRC delegate Dr Georges Henny
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Dr Patay's medical kit with complete set of emergency surgical instruments
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Dunant-Passy Nobel Prize
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Artisanal femoral prosthesis, Angola, 1996
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Bone statuette, Laos
Images, Objekte
![Bone statuette, Laos, C. 1970 © Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1848/dsc7636.0x600.jpg)
Third Diagram by Henry Dunant
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![](/site/assets/files/1851/diagr_2_a.600x0.jpg)
Second Diagram by Henry Dunant
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First Diagram by Henry Dunant
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Fourth Diagram by Henry Dunant
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HUMANITY, a video by Henry Leutwyler
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![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1VlNO4mjGdQ/0.jpg)
Esmarch Bandage
Images, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1871/dsc2729.0x600.jpg)
Film cans from the Film Library of the League of Red Cross Societies
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![](/site/assets/files/1949/dsc2753.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1980/visuel_teaser_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 1st episode
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![](/site/assets/files/2001/visuel_ep1_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 2nd episode
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![](/site/assets/files/2032/visuel_ep2_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 3rd episode
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![](/site/assets/files/2107/visuel_ep3_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 4th episode
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Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 5th episode
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![](/site/assets/files/2123/visuel_ep5_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 6th episode
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![](/site/assets/files/2137/visuel_ep6_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 7th episode
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Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 8th episode
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Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 9th episode
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Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 10th episode
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Flag of the Cruz Blanca Neutral Mexicana
Bezeichnung
Der Inhalt dieser Seite ist derzeit nicht auf Deutsch verfügbar.
Elena Arizmendi Mejía (1884-1949) was studying nursing at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, when the Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910. The Mexican Red Cross refused to provide first aid to the revolutionary forces, so Arizmendi Mejía dropped out of nursing school in 1911 to found La Cruz Blanca Neutral (Neutral White Cross) in Mexico City in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. One of the new organization’s first actions was to raise funds to build a field hospital at the heart of the combat zone in Ciudad Juárez. Arizmendi Mejía was also a pioneering Central American feminist and founder of Feminismo Internacional, the official journal of the International League of Iberian and Latin American Women. In 1923, she founded Las Mujeres de la Raza, an association that fought for women’s suffrage and civil rights.
Credits
Flag of the Neutral White Cross, Mexico, 2022 © Courtesy of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva.
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ImagesObjekteGender and diversityIn derselben Sammlung
Woven pot made of salvaged materials
Images, Exhibitions, Objekte, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1139/tissage.600x0.png)
Kleenex box, "Love-Yasmine-2003-ICRC"
Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1151/col-2005-35-1_a161nr.0x600.jpg)
Composition with butterfly wings
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![](/site/assets/files/1376/col-1998-49-1_a090jb.0x600.jpg)
Boots of a nurse's uniform
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![](/site/assets/files/1352/bottines_web.600x0.jpg)
Fragment of a car door shredded by a grenade
Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1375/col-2002-37-4.0x600.jpg)
Leg prosthesis in wood and rubber
Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1374/col-1999-135-1-11.600x0.jpg)
Arm prosthesis
Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1377/col-1999-135-1-9.0x600.jpg)
Cardboard reading panel for eye test
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![](/site/assets/files/1373/col-1999-110-1_a020sb-2.600x0.jpg)
Dress of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objekte, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1358/col-1996-20-1-1.600x0.jpg)
Flask of a nurse's uniform
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![](/site/assets/files/1356/dsc1746_web.600x0.jpg)
Tights of a nurse's uniform
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![](/site/assets/files/1357/dsc1821_web.600x0.jpg)
Hat of a nurse's uniform
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![](/site/assets/files/1353/dsc1771_web.600x0.jpg)
Armband of a nurse's uniform
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![](/site/assets/files/1354/dsc1803_web.0x600.jpg)
First aid kit for nurses
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![](/site/assets/files/1355/dsc1752_web.600x0.jpg)
Cup
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![](/site/assets/files/1347/dsc1794_web.600x0.jpg)
First Aid Kit
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![](/site/assets/files/1332/dsc1817_web.600x0.jpg)
Stretcher, first half of 20th century
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![](/site/assets/files/1331/dsc1865_web.600x0.jpg)
"Because of a mine you can lose a leg while playing"
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![](/site/assets/files/1360/col-1999-108-1_2.600x0.jpg)
Blood transfusion service
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![](/site/assets/files/1334/bbt-1988-47-4_web.0x600.jpg)
Casualty
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![](/site/assets/files/1344/bbt-1988-47-6.600x0.jpg)
First aid kit
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![](/site/assets/files/1342/dsc1790_web.600x0.jpg)
HUMANITY by Henry Leutwyler
Texts, Books, Objekte, Plakate, Fotografien
![](/site/assets/files/1709/humanity_1.0x600.jpg)
Two columns and a fragment of marble from the Castle of the Materity of Elne
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![](/site/assets/files/1716/dsc7651.0x600.jpg)
Bullet received by ICRC delegate Dr Georges Henny
Images, Objekte
![© Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1720/dsc7687.0x600.jpg)
Dr Patay's medical kit with complete set of emergency surgical instruments
Images, Objekte
![© Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1721/dsc7587.0x600.jpg)
Dunant-Passy Nobel Prize
Images, Objekte
![© Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1722/dsc7632.0x600.jpg)
Artisanal femoral prosthesis, Angola, 1996
Images, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1754/col-1999-138-1-5.600x0.jpg)
Bone statuette, Laos
Images, Objekte
![Bone statuette, Laos, C. 1970 © Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1848/dsc7636.0x600.jpg)
Third Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1851/diagr_2_a.600x0.jpg)
Second Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1852/diagr_1_a.600x0.jpg)
First Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1853/diagr_4.600x0.jpg)
Fourth Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1850/diagr_3-1.600x0.jpg)
HUMANITY, a video by Henry Leutwyler
Videos, Objekte
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1VlNO4mjGdQ/0.jpg)
Esmarch Bandage
Images, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1871/dsc2729.0x600.jpg)
Film cans from the Film Library of the League of Red Cross Societies
Images, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1949/dsc2753.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/1980/visuel_teaser_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 1st episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/2001/visuel_ep1_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 2nd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/2032/visuel_ep2_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 3rd episode
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![](/site/assets/files/2107/visuel_ep3_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 4th episode
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![](/site/assets/files/2113/visuel_ep4_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 5th episode
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![](/site/assets/files/2123/visuel_ep5_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 6th episode
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Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 7th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/2138/visuel_ep7_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 8th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/2178/visuel_ep8_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 9th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/2179/visuel_ep9_sans_titre-1.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 10th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objekte
![](/site/assets/files/2180/visuel_ep10_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Verknüpfte Ressourcen
Caregiver in 28 days
Images, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1346/bbt-2005-4-113.0x600.jpg)
Red Cross nurses awaiting a train carrying wounded French soldiers
Images
![](/site/assets/files/1384/828_v-p-hist-03576-07.0x600.jpg)
The Public Health Nurse
Images, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1350/bbt-1987-34-78_web.600x0.jpg)
A woman first aid attendant and two men trained in surf rescue
Images, Fotografien, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1340/pht-1987-37-29.600x0.jpg)
Thinking feminist museums with Rebecca Amsellem
Videos, Fokus, Gender and diversity
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/67590H-5CYg/0.jpg)
Friedel Bohny Reiter by Brenda Lynn Edgar
Audios, Fokus, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1183/whocares_r_alinebovardrudaz_025.0x600.jpg)
Sarah Monod By Dolores Martín Moruno
Audios, Fokus, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1401/whocares_r_alinebovardrudaz_001.0x600.jpg)
Maria Skłodowska-Curie by Elisa Rusca
Videos, Fokus, Gender and diversity
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FinSdmeDStA/0.jpg)
Maria Eskens by Marie Leyder
Videos, Fokus, Gender and diversity
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jvR0JKncm7g/0.jpg)
10 Ideen für ein feministisches und inklusives Museum
Texts, Toolkits, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1400/capture_decran_2022-10-05_174156.0x600.png)
Who cares? by Pascal Hufschmid
Videos, Fokus, Gender and diversity
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/M-K5RqbMT8k/0.jpg)