Abbreviation | IRCS |
---|---|
Formation | 1922 |
Founder | Amir Amir-Aʿlam [1] |
Type | [1] |
Legal status | Legislated by the Iranian Parliament on 28 April 1988 [1] |
Purpose | Humanitarian aid |
Headquarters | Building of Peace, 136 Valiasr St., Tehran |
Region served | Iran |
Services |
|
Fields |
|
Secretary General | Dr. Yaghob Soleymani |
President | Pir-Hossein Kolivand [2] |
Budget (2016–17) | $231.36 million [3] |
Staff (2005) | 7,000 paid employees [4] |
Volunteers (2017) | 2,000,000 [5] |
Website |
en |
Formerly called | Red Lion and Sun Society |
The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), officially the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran ( Persian: جمعیت هلال احمر جمهوری اسلامی ایران, romanized: Jamʿiyyat-e Helâl-e Ahmar-e Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân) is a non-governmental humanitarian organization in Iran. [1] Founded as the Red Lion and Sun Society in 1922, [4] it became affiliated with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in 1924 [6] and changed its name and emblem in 1980, informing the international community of Hilal Ahmar adoption [7] while assuming the right to adopt the former emblem in future. [1]
The society is one of the world's largest national societies within IFRC [4] and is noted for its special expertise in responding to earthquakes. [8]
Since inception, the IRCS has participated in a variety of public activities. Its core activity is to perform relief and rescue operations to help victims and the injured in natural disasters and accidents. It also engages a in wide range of humanitarian services in health and rehabilitation, training and research. [4] The society had a therapeutic approach and was regarded a major healthcare institution with thousands of hospital beds across the country until 1979, when all of its medical facilities were transferred to the Ministry of Health. [1]
IRCS is an example of strong national societies that play an important role domestically [8] and is held in high esteem by the Iranian general public. [4]
IRCS has 30 governorate headquarters, one in each province of Iran, and 330 branches throughout the country, as of 2005. [4] Based on the latest structure, it is made up of four departments: relief and rescue (emdād wa najāt), medical provisions (tadārokāt-e pezeški), volunteers (dāvṭalabān), and youth (javānān). [1] The latter is largely made up of high school and university student members. [4]
According to the law enacted by the Iranian Parliament, the society is run by a chairman appointed by the President of Iran. This procedure is in contrast with the elective nature of a society chairman as suggested by the IFRC. [1] The secretary general is responsible for the administrative and executive affairs. [1]
IRCS owns and runs Helal Iran Textile Industries Co., a producer of blankets and tents. [9] SOHA, a manufacturer of disposable medical devices is also owned by the society, [10] as well as Shahrvand, a daily newspaper. [11] The Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, an English language peer-reviewed journal on clinical and scientific medicine, is another publication of IRCS. [12]
Heads of the society have been: [1]
The government has increased IRCS budget for renovation and procurement of relief supplies by 1,000 billion rials ($25.64 million at market exchange rate) to 5,000 billion rials ($128.2 million). IRCS's budget for relief supplies saw a steep cut of 3,000 billion rials ($76.92 million) last year to stand at 7,000 billion rials ($179.48 million). It was again reduced to 4,000 billion rials ($102.56 million) in the current Iranian year's budget, the Persian daily Shahrvand reported.
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Abbreviation | IRCS |
---|---|
Formation | 1922 |
Founder | Amir Amir-Aʿlam [1] |
Type | [1] |
Legal status | Legislated by the Iranian Parliament on 28 April 1988 [1] |
Purpose | Humanitarian aid |
Headquarters | Building of Peace, 136 Valiasr St., Tehran |
Region served | Iran |
Services |
|
Fields |
|
Secretary General | Dr. Yaghob Soleymani |
President | Pir-Hossein Kolivand [2] |
Budget (2016–17) | $231.36 million [3] |
Staff (2005) | 7,000 paid employees [4] |
Volunteers (2017) | 2,000,000 [5] |
Website |
en |
Formerly called | Red Lion and Sun Society |
The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), officially the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran ( Persian: جمعیت هلال احمر جمهوری اسلامی ایران, romanized: Jamʿiyyat-e Helâl-e Ahmar-e Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân) is a non-governmental humanitarian organization in Iran. [1] Founded as the Red Lion and Sun Society in 1922, [4] it became affiliated with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in 1924 [6] and changed its name and emblem in 1980, informing the international community of Hilal Ahmar adoption [7] while assuming the right to adopt the former emblem in future. [1]
The society is one of the world's largest national societies within IFRC [4] and is noted for its special expertise in responding to earthquakes. [8]
Since inception, the IRCS has participated in a variety of public activities. Its core activity is to perform relief and rescue operations to help victims and the injured in natural disasters and accidents. It also engages a in wide range of humanitarian services in health and rehabilitation, training and research. [4] The society had a therapeutic approach and was regarded a major healthcare institution with thousands of hospital beds across the country until 1979, when all of its medical facilities were transferred to the Ministry of Health. [1]
IRCS is an example of strong national societies that play an important role domestically [8] and is held in high esteem by the Iranian general public. [4]
IRCS has 30 governorate headquarters, one in each province of Iran, and 330 branches throughout the country, as of 2005. [4] Based on the latest structure, it is made up of four departments: relief and rescue (emdād wa najāt), medical provisions (tadārokāt-e pezeški), volunteers (dāvṭalabān), and youth (javānān). [1] The latter is largely made up of high school and university student members. [4]
According to the law enacted by the Iranian Parliament, the society is run by a chairman appointed by the President of Iran. This procedure is in contrast with the elective nature of a society chairman as suggested by the IFRC. [1] The secretary general is responsible for the administrative and executive affairs. [1]
IRCS owns and runs Helal Iran Textile Industries Co., a producer of blankets and tents. [9] SOHA, a manufacturer of disposable medical devices is also owned by the society, [10] as well as Shahrvand, a daily newspaper. [11] The Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, an English language peer-reviewed journal on clinical and scientific medicine, is another publication of IRCS. [12]
Heads of the society have been: [1]
The government has increased IRCS budget for renovation and procurement of relief supplies by 1,000 billion rials ($25.64 million at market exchange rate) to 5,000 billion rials ($128.2 million). IRCS's budget for relief supplies saw a steep cut of 3,000 billion rials ($76.92 million) last year to stand at 7,000 billion rials ($179.48 million). It was again reduced to 4,000 billion rials ($102.56 million) in the current Iranian year's budget, the Persian daily Shahrvand reported.
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