List of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a committee of Swiss nationals based in Geneva, Switzerland, which leads the international movement and which has special responsibilities under international humanitarian law.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which is the body composed of all the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and was established to coordinate international relief actions and promote humanitarian activities.
The 190 individual National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies members of the Federation.^[1]

Members of the Federation

Eritrea: Red Cross Society of Eritrea (observer, ^{[citation needed]})
Northern Cyprus: North Cyprus Red Crescent Society (observer)
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: Sahrawi Red Crescent (observer,^[3]^[4] ^{[citation needed]})
Taiwan (Republic of China): Red Cross Society of the Republic of China (recognized by the ICRC, but not a member or observer of the Federation)
Sovereign Military Order of Malta: conducting humanitarian operations is a major part of its own activities (recognized by the ICRC, but not a member or observer of the Federation)^{[citation needed]}

^ National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC
^ Maldivian Red Crescent officially joins the IFRC at the 18th General Assembly, published: 23 November 2011: "The Maldivian Red Crescent became the 187th member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)"
^ Refugee Participation Network 7 (February 1990) - The Fearless Children of the Stone Refugee Studies Program, Oxford. p. 19. "The Sahrawi Red Crescent has observer status with the League of Red Cross Societies and is the formal channel for all external assistance to the Sahrawi people, (full membership is precluded until SADR has gained membership of the United Nations)."
^ Diego Aguirre, Jose Ramón (1991). Guerra en el Sáhara. Istmo ed. p. 176. ISBN 8470902520 "...in April the Sahrawi Red Crescent obtained the status of observer at the IX Congress of the Arab Red Crescent, analog to the International Red Cross, what supposed also the boycott of this reunion by Morocco."