The Red Cross action in the Congo

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Medical Teams

The International Committee and the League of Red Cross Societies made a point of informing those taking part in the meetings of the International Red Cross in Prague, by means of information sessions and a booklet, of the work undertaken by the Red Cross in the Congo since 1960. This has been dealt with in the International Review on a number of occasions but in a fragmentary manner and we think it would be useful to summarize for our readers some of the successive stages in an operation which has mobilized, and which continues to mobilize, part of the forces of the Red Cross.Here, first of all, are the main points of a speech made by Mr. Gallopin, Executive Director of the ICRC, to which we have added certain details on the interventions which have taken place in recent months, following events in Katanga. Secondly, we are publishing some passages from a booklet edited jointly by the ICRC and the League on medical assistance in the Congo and to finish we are giving a few details on the medal distributed to the members of medical teams to whom the ICRC wished to express its grateful recognition.

Nigeria—Greece

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (78) ◽  
pp. 478-479
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
Medical Teams ◽  
Swiss Government

As mentioned in the last number of the International Review, the ICRC has undertaken an action of importance in Nigeria where troubles had broken out. In July 1967, its delegate-general for Africa, Mr. Georg Hoffmann, on going to Lagos observed the urgent need of humanitarian aid for that country. On his indications the International Committee sent two medical teams to the spot to give assistance to the victims of the conflict. They were placed at the ICRC's disposal by the Swiss Red Cross, thanks in particular to a donation from the Swiss Government.

Further participation in the Geneva Conventions

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (89) ◽  
pp. 406-406
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
Geneva Conventions

In its number for June 1968, the International Review mentioned that 118 States were parties to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949. Since then, the International Committee of the Red Cross has been informed by the Federal Political Department in Berne of the participation by the Kingdom of Lesotho in these Conventions.

History of the International, Committee of the Red Cross

1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (32) ◽  
pp. 606-606
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
History Of ◽  
German Edition

The last issue of the International Review contained an article on the book which Mr. Pierre Boissier has just had published: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. The first volume, in French, is available from the Editions Plon, Paris. The German edition is still being prepared.

Vietnam—Indonesia—India and Pakistan—Yemen

1966 ◽  
Vol 6 (59) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Male Nurse ◽  
National Liberation Front ◽  
Vietnamese Population ◽  
Medical Teams

ICRC medical teams ready to go into action. — With a view to alleviating the suffering caused by the prolongation of the war to the Vietnamese population both in the North and in the South, the International Committee of the Red Cross on December 27, 1965 offered the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Hanoi and Saigon and the National Liberation Front (NLF) to send medical teams to the spot, each consisting of two doctors and one male nurse, all of Swiss nationality. These could, in accordance with the principles of the Red Cross, care for all wounded, sick and disabled, victims of the events.

To inform or govern? 150 years of the International Review of the Red Cross, 1869–2019

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (907-909) ◽  
pp. 71-96
Author(s):  
Daniel Palmieri
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
History Of

AbstractThe International Review of the Red Cross (formerly the Bulletin Internationale des Sociétés de Secours aux Militaires Blessés) is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2019, making it the oldest of the general publications produced by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Originally created as a communication tool for the entire International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the Review rapidly changed its course to become first the primary mouthpiece of the ICRC for many years, and finally an academic journal. This article will retrace the history of this evolution, during which, under cover of humanitarianism, political factors played a significant role.

Respect for the Rules of Humanity in Viet Nam

1965 ◽  
Vol 5 (53) ◽  
pp. 417-418 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
International Review ◽  
To Come

The International Committee of the Red Cross has intervened whenever possible in order to come to the aid of the victims of the war in Viet Nam. Information on this subject has been given in recent issues of the International Review.

Further accessions to the Geneva Conventions

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (86) ◽  
pp. 266-266
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
Geneva Conventions

In its issue of October 1967, the International Review stated that 116 States were parties to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949. Since then, the International Committee of the Red Cross has been informed by the Federal Political Department of the participation of two new countries to these Conventions.

Rwanda – Nigeria – Vietnam – Near East – Yemen – Korea

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (82) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Relief Work ◽  
Organization Of African Unity

Under the title “The action of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Congo and Rwanda” the International Review published last month an article on ICRC relief work at the request of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). It described events up to the end of November 1967.

Editorship of the Review — Jacques Meurant retires

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (310) ◽  
pp. 152-153
Author(s):  
Cornelio Sommaruga
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review

At the end of 1995, the International Committee of the Red Cross bade farewell to Jacques Meurant, editor-in-chief of the International Review of the Red Cross since 1986. At the end of a career spanning more than thirty years in the service of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including ten years in charge of the Review, Mr Meurant is leaving for a well-deserved retirement.

After the tragic end of Mr. John F. Kennedy

1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (33) ◽  
pp. 643-644
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
National Society ◽  
American Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
The People ◽  
Tragic Event ◽  
Short Time

The International Committee took a sincere part in the tragic event which was mourned on November 22, 1963 by the people of the United States and by the American Red Cross. Mr. John F. Kennedy was not only President of the United States, he was also Honorary President of the National Society to which a short time ago, on the occasion of the Centenary of the Red Cross, he addressed a message which was published in the International Review. One will also recall the stirring message full of confidence which he sent this September to the Centenary Congress of the International Red Cross in Geneva.

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