World Red Cross Day, also known as World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, is a day of commemoration jointly organized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and 190 national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

After the first world war, given the huge pain to the people all over the world war, the Red Cross of Czechoslovakia first initiative for three days each year, the "Red Cross truce" activities, and in the meantime the publicity of the Red Cross humanitarian ideas, enhance friendship and cooperation between peoples, promote world peace, reduce the war.
At the same time, the Red Cross also carried out nationwide publicity and education on health, relief and children's welfare in conjunction with its business.
This initiative of the Czechoslovak Red Cross has been widely appreciated and supported by the international Red Cross community.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was founded in 1863. It is the originator of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
The organization directs and coordinates the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's international operations in situations of armed conflict and other violence.
The international committee of the Red Cross in order to protect the armed conflict and other violence victims of the life and dignity, and to provide assistance for the mission, and also by promoting and strengthening the humanitarian law and humanitarian principles generally, try our best to prevent the suffering, is a fair, neutral and independent organization, also is in the Red Cross and red crescent movement's oldest and most prestigious organizations.