Our World. Your Move.

The ICRC and Red Crescent movement are using the works of top photojournalists from the New York-based VII Agency as a component of their Our World. Your Move. campaign. 

According to the ICRC the campaign is aimed at highlighting today's most pressing humanitarian challenges and the power of individuals to make a difference.

"The photographs offer a unique and first-hand look at what war and other armed violence do to people's lives. They also highlight the solidarity of ordinary men and women helping those who are suffering to maintain their dignity and hope."

The photos are now part of an exhibit entitled Our World - At War. For the show, world-renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey travelled with the ICRC in Afghanistan and in Central Mindanao, a conflict-ravaged area of the Philippines. Ron Haviv covered the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti while Chris Morris documented Liberia. Franco Pagetti was in Columbia and Antonin Kratochvil worked Georgia.

The year 2009 has great significance for the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement as it marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Solferino and the 60th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949. The founder of the ICRC, Jean-Henri Dunant, having witnessed the battle of Solferino first-hand in 1859 was so affected that he was inspired to establish the ICRC in 1863. He also led a campaign that resulted in the establishment of the first Geneva convention. In observance of these anniversaries, the movement has launched Our World. Your Move, they say, to remind everyone of his or her individual responsibility to lessen human suffering.

The photo exhibit runs from October 9 to 26 at the Musee D'Art Haitien in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Photo courtesy of IFRC via Flickr.