Every year the International Humanitarian Law team hosts a competition for the design of our annual Youth Action Campaign pin!
The Annual International Humanitarian Law Youth Action Campaign Pin Contest is open to students who are current American Red Cross volunteers and participants in the IHL Youth Action Campaign. Participants submit art that reflect this year's IHL theme and the top designs will be voted on by current IHL YAC Participants globally.
The winning design is then made into the official annual IHL YAC pin, which is produced and distributed to Red Cross IHL YAC volunteers around the world!
Yoonseo Linda Lee from Arizona is the winner of the 2025 IHL YAC pin design for her creative approach to the IHL theme of Space Law and Armed Conflict. Linda's design reminds participants of the importance of space regulation and the impact of satellites on civilian populations here on earth.
Finley Endres, our 2024 IHL Youth Action Campaign pin design competition winner, found inspiration in the story of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl from Japan who contracted leukemia as a result of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. While in the hospital, one of her roommates told her about an ancient Japanese belief that if anyone folds 1,000 folding cranes, you would be granted a wish.
Reflecting on this, Finley shared, “Despite being sick, Sadako still had hope. I based my pin on her story so we may find hope in her story for a better future free of nuclear war.”
Jeeline Martinez from Texas is the 2023 pin design winner for the IHL Environment and Armed Conflict theme considered how extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and other related events displace people, disrupt food supplies, and indirectly contribute to conflict. This theme raised awareness about the danger environmental change poses to people and explored the legal protections for the environment during armed conflict.