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In international humanitarian law, a voluntary aid society or volunteer aid society is a private medical relief organisation that is recognised and authorised by a government, but which conducts its business with considerable independence and autonomy. The word "voluntary" implies that the society operates of its own free will, without any obligation to the state; this distinguishes voluntary aid societies from governmental or military organisations. (The personnel of such societies do not necessarily need to be "volunteers" in the sense of being unsalaried.)
The concept was introduced in the 1899 Hague Convention as an umbrella term to include several organisations outside the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement which act in a similar role providing relief in conflict and enjoyed varying degrees of state recognition, but which are not themselves national Red Cross societies. In order to be recognised by the international movement, national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies must, among other other requirements, be recognised in law by their own national government as a voluntary aid society.[1]