Impact Trust • Working glossary
Auxiliary role
The special legal relationship between a National Red Cross/Red Crescent Society and its government – serving as an auxiliary to public authorities in humanitarian matters.
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Our Take
Fundamental RCRC concept; widely understood within the Movement but puzzling to outsiders. Worth including because it shapes what National Societies can and cannot do -- and explains constraints that external partners find baffling. If partnering with a National Society, this is the legal architecture shaping what they can do independently.
Examples of Use
RCRC Movement, international humanitarian law
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