The School Textbook and the “Soldier's Manual”

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (188) ◽  
pp. 573-574
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher's Manual

To spread the principles of the Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions more widely throughout the world the ICRC has published a school textbook, which is now available in many languages. This is designed for school children and has been supplemented by a “Teacher's Manual”. These two works teach humanitarian ideals to young readers, but it was later found necessary to produce a manual for soldiers. The ICRC considered this matter and issued the “Soldier's Manual” which, like the school textbook, was generously illustrated.

School textbook and soldier's manual

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (175) ◽  
pp. 527-528
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher's Manual ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Active Contribution

For a number of years, the ICRC has been publishing and offering to National Societies an illustrated school textbook, supplemented by a teacher's manual to help teachers make effective use of the textbook. This has made an active contribution to spreading knowledge of Red Cross principles and the Geneva Conventions among the young people of the world. The two books have been very widely distributed, as the International Review has noted from time to time.

“The Red Cross and My Country” in five Asian countries

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (112) ◽  
pp. 388-389
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher's Manual

In order to make better known throughout the world the humanitarian principles of the Red Cross, the ICRC has published a school textbook, “The Red Cross and My Country”, and its complement the “Teacher's Manual”. These are for distribution in schools in Africa and in Asia x. In addition, for the armed forces, it has published the “Soldier's Manual”. The first two of these three books educate schoolchildren, by means of short illustrated texts, in the fundamental humanitarian principles, whilst the “Soldier's Manual” concentrates on the essential provisions of the Geneva Conventions.

The “Soldier's Manual”

1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (125) ◽  
pp. 439-440
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher's Manual

It is common knowledge that the ICRC, in order to make the humanitarian Red Cross principles known throughout the world, has produced a school textbook entitled The Red Cross and My Country, followed by a Teacher's Manual. It has already been issued in fifteen languages. More than a million copies have been printed and it has been distributed in schools in fifty-five countries.Subsequently, it appeared necessary to publish also a handbook for officers and other ranks of the armed forces. It was entitled the Soldier's Manual. Its inspiration was the same as that underlying the school textbook. However, while the latter is designed to inculcate in schoolchildren, by means of short illustrated texts, the principles of the Red Cross and of humanitarian law, the Soldier's Manual summarizes the rules of the Geneva Conventions which should be applied in all circumstances when armed conflict breaks out.

“The Red Crescent and My Country” in the Arab Countries

1972 ◽  
Vol 12 (132) ◽  
pp. 160-161
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
Teacher's Manual ◽  
Primary School Pupils

On several occasions, the International Review has mentioned the efforts of the ICRC to make known the principles of the Geneva Conventions in schools through the medium of the school textbook “The Red Cross and My Country”, of which over one million copies have been distributed, in 16 languages, in 45 countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia. Its purpose is to instil the basic Red Cross principles into primary school pupils, and an explanatory “Teacher's Manual” accompanies the textbook.

“The Red Cross and My Country” in Ethiopia and Portugal

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (182) ◽  
pp. 253-254
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
Teacher's Manual ◽  
Primary School Pupils

On a number of occasions International Review has mentioned the ICRC efforts to make known, through the school textbook The Red Cross and My Country, the underlying principles of the Geneva Conventions. More than a million copies of twenty versions of the textbook have been distributed. In more than sixty countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe, it has been a pronounced success. It is intended to imbue primary school pupils with a sense of the fundamental Red Cross principles, and is supplemented by a “Teacher's Manual”.

School Textbook and Teacher's Manual: “The Red Cross and My Country” “The Red Crescent and My Country”

1973 ◽  
Vol 13 (152) ◽  
pp. 595-598
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher's Manual

In its desire to contribute actively to disseminating the principles of the Red Cross and the Conventions among schoolchildren the world over, the International Committee took the initiative of publishing and offering National Societies an 80-page school textbook with illustrations suited to each country. The school textbook was complemented by a “Teacher's Manual” to serve as a guide for teachers. By 31 October 1973, fifty-eight countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East were using the textbook, and more than two million copies had been published in seventeen languages.

The “Soldier's Manual”

1972 ◽  
Vol 12 (139) ◽  
pp. 573-575
Keyword(s):  
Red Cross ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher's Manual

To make the Red Cross principles more widely known throughout the world, the ICRC has produced a textbook entitled The Red Cross and My Country, which has already been issued in many languages. It is meant for schoolchildren and is now supplemented by the Teacher's Manual. We might add that the ICRC has provided the illustrations and, in a number of cases, itself attended to publication.

Keynote Address by Mr Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (310) ◽  
pp. 20-35
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Technological Disasters ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The World ◽  
Complementary Nature ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Day By Day

The world is weighed down by the victims of too many tragedies. Today, at this 26th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, it is in the name of those victims, the sole reason for our presence here, that I am addressing the representatives of the States party to the Geneva Conventions and those of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Our Movement is faced with the challenge of protecting and assisting these hapless individuals, whose numbers, alas, are growing day by day. Moreover, the situations in which we have to take action are ever more complex, whether they result from natural or technological disasters, which often occur in developing countries where there is no proper infrastructure, or from armed conflicts and other forms of violence affecting entire populations whose authorities are generally powerless to protect them. It is our solidarity with the victims of these situations that gives us our strength — and this solidarity is expressed through the separate but complementary activities conducted by the National Societies, their International Federation and the ICRC. The complementary nature of our respective tasks, which is the result of experience and is enshrined in our Statutes, is precisely what makes us effective.

The Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (320) ◽  
pp. 473-481
Author(s):  
Jean de Preux
Keyword(s):  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Naval Warfare ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law

The world now has a population of 5 billion, as against 1 billion in 1863 when the Red Cross was founded and the codification of the law of armed conflicts was initiated. For almost a century, the Red Cross concerned itself successively with soldiers wounded in action, victims of naval warfare, prisoners of war and civilians abandoned in wartime to the arbitrariness of foreign rule.

Jordan National Red Crescent Society: Tenth Anniversary of the 1977 Additional Protocols: A Jordanian View

1987 ◽  
Vol 27 (258) ◽  
pp. 293-296
Author(s):  
Ahmad Abu-Goura
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Scene

Twenty years after the adoption of the four Geneva Conventions in 1949, the concerned world humanitarian organisations and in particular the ICRC, felt the need to develop these humanitarian treaties. After several preliminary meetings with experts from various governments and National Societies, the ICRC came to the conclusion that it would not be appropriate to revise the 1949 Conventions, but that two additional Protocols should be drawn up. The first should deal with “international armed conflicts” and the second with “non-international armed conflicts”. Both Protocols were intended to complement and supplement the Geneva Conventions. They are the outcome of prolonged and diversified discussions among high-ranking Red Cross and Red Crescent officials and government representatives who all attempted to find new solutions for gaps in the Geneva Conventions, thereby taking into account developments on the world political scene.

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