Renée Bordier
Swiss nurse and humanitarian activist (1902–2000) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Renée Bordier (1 July 1902, Geneva – 2000) was a Swiss nurse from a patrician family background. She became a leading expert at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for relief actions, especially during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). As only the fifth female member of the ICRC's governing body Bordier helped to pave the way towards gender equality in the organisation which itself has historically been a pioneer of international humanitarian law.[1]
During the Second World War she was an outspoken advocate inside the ICRC leadership to publicly denounce the Holocaust by Nazi Germany through its system of extermination and concentration camps, though in vain.[2][3]