Help to War Victims in Nigeria

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (93) ◽  
pp. 626-633 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Institutions ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
The Third ◽  
Considerable Cost ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
To Come ◽  
War Victims ◽  
Work Up

In our last month's issue we gave an account of ICRC relief work up to the end of October 1968 in Nigeria and the secessionist province Biafra. This clearly brought out the scale and very considerable cost of the mission which will continue for months to come. As the financial situation had reached the crisis stage, the International Committee invited representatives of governments, National Societies and international institutions, able to help it, to a meeting in Geneva, in order to explain the facts which justify not only the massive scale of, but also support for, the Red Cross action. There were in fact three meetings, one of National Societies, the second of representatives of governments and inter-governmental institutions and the third of voluntary agencies.

Technical note: The Red Cross and its role as an auxiliary to military medical services

1983 ◽  
Vol 23 (234) ◽  
pp. 139-141
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Technical Note ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
To Come

The very first National Red Cross Societies were formed, on the initiative of Henry Dunant and his colleagues in that private Genevese association that was later to take the name of the “International Committee of the Red Cross”, precisely to come to the aid of wounded soldiers.

The Declaration of the Rights of the Child

1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (26) ◽  
pp. 227-233
Author(s):  
Andrée Morier
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Union ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Final Draft ◽  
Save The Children ◽  
To Come ◽  
First Time ◽  
Declaration Of Geneva

At the time when the Centenary of the Red Cross is about to be celebrated, it would be fitting to remember the rôle so many members and officers of the International Committee of the Red Cross have played in the drafting and the proclamation of the Rights of the Child. This declaration called the Declaration of Geneva was proclaimed forty years ago by the Council of the “Save the Children International Union” (SCIU). It was on May 17, 1923, that the final draft in five brief clauses was adopted. It is to be recalled that at that time the ICRC and the SCIU worked in close co-operation. Indeed, it was Dr. Frédéric Ferrière's report (then Vice-President of the ICRC) on the disastrous situation in which children lived in Vienna which incited Eglantyne Jebb to come to Geneva for the first time.

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.

Preparing the meeting of the group of intergovernmental experts for the protection of war victims: Protection of war Victims — Suggestions of the International Committee of the Red Cross

1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (302) ◽  
pp. 425-441
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Conference ◽  
War Victims ◽  
Swiss Government

This document is based on the Final Declaration of the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims, the report prepared by the ICRC for that Conference and the note sent to States at the beginning of March 1994 by the Swiss Government, concerning the meeting of the group of experts.The present paper does not take up all the points referred to in the Swiss Government's note, but defines more precisely, for certain of them, issues that the experts might look into more closely.

Two Appeals by the International Committee: For the Victims of the Conflict in South-East Asia - For the Benefit of Victims of the Events in Ceylon

1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (124) ◽  
pp. 375-379
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Come ◽  
General Appeal

On 25 May 1971, the International Committee launched the following appeal to National Red Cross Societies:During the past few years, several appeals have been made for assistance to the various countries affected by the war in South-East Asia: Laos—January 1968; Vietnam—February 1968; Laos—April 1970; Cambodia—June 1970. In view of the permanent state of war which exists throughout Indochina, and in view of the infinite suffering resulting therefrom, the International Committee of the Red Cross is today making a general appeal to the generosity of National Societies, calling on them to come to the aid of all the victims of the conflict, regardless of political or ideological affinities.

The Undertaking to Respect and Ensure Respect in All Circumstances: From Tiny Seed to Ripening Fruit

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 3-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frits Kalshoven
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Legal Obligation ◽  
State Party ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The Law ◽  
Negative Duty ◽  
War Victims

The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 for the protection of war victims open with an unusual provision: it is the undertaking of the contracting states ‘to respect and to ensure respect for [the Conventions] in all circumstances’. Why reaffirm that contracting states are bound to ‘respect’ their treaty obligations? Does ‘all circumstances’ add anything special to this fundamental rule of the law of treaties? And what about ‘ensure respect’: should that not be regarded as implicit in ‘respect’, in the sense of a positive counterpart to the negative duty not to violate the terms of the Conventions?I readily admit that common Article 1 was not the first provision of the Conventions to capture my attention: there was, after all, so much to discover in these impressive structures that Article 1 could easily be passed over as an innocuous sort of opening phrase. Two things have changed this. One was the insistence of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that a State Party to the Conventions is not only itself bound to comply with its obligations under these instruments but is under a legal obligation to make sure that other States Parties do likewise. The more this thesis of the ICRC was forced upon us, the less likely it seemed to me that this could indeed be an international legal obligation upon contracting states.

The International Committee of the Red Cross and the protection of war victims

1995 ◽  
Vol 35 (307) ◽  
pp. 426-426
Author(s):  
The Review
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
International Community ◽  
Deputy Director ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
International Review ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
War Victims

In its recent issues the International Review of the Red Cross announced the publication of a work entitled Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge et la protection des victimes de la guerre by François Bugnion, Deputy Director of the ICRC Department of Principles, Law and Relations with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.The book has already become the reference work par excellence on the International Committee of the Red Cross in that it analyses, in a combined historical and legal approach, the process whereby the international community came to entrust the Committee with tasks and areas of competence relating to the protection of war victims. It also highlights the interaction between the development of ICRC practice and that of international humanitarian law.

Reflections on the development of the Movement and international humanitarian law through the lens of the ICRC Library's Heritage Collection

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (907-909) ◽  
pp. 143-163
Author(s):  
Ismaël Raboud ◽  
Matthieu Niederhauser ◽  
Charlotte Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Geneva Convention ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
War Victims ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Library was first created at the initiative of the ICRC's co-founder and president, Gustave Moynier. By the end of the nineteenth century, it had become a specialized documentation centre with comprehensive collections on the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, international humanitarian law (IHL) and relief to war victims, keeping track of the latest legal debates and technological innovations in the fields related to the ICRC's activities. The publications collected by the Library until the end of the First World War form a rich collection of almost 4,000 documents now known as the ancien fonds, the Library's Heritage Collection.Direct witness to the birth of an international humanitarian movement and of IHL, the Heritage Collection contains the era's most important publications related to the development of humanitarian action for war victims, from the first edition of Henry Dunant's groundbreaking Un souvenir de Solférino to the first mission reports of ICRC delegates and the handwritten minutes of the Diplomatic Conference that led to the adoption of the 1864 Geneva Convention. This article looks at the way this unique collection of documents retraces the history of the ICRC during its first decades of existence and documents its original preoccupations and operations, highlighting the most noteworthy items of the Collection along the way.

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