Lebanese President visits ICRC

1983 ◽  
Vol 23 (237) ◽  
pp. 314-314
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
The United Nations

The Lebanese President, Mr. Amin Gemayel, visited the International Committee of the Red Cross on 4 November. He was accompanied by Lebanon's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Mr. Ibrahim Karma.

UN Peacekeeping Operations: Applicability of International Humanitarian Law and Responsibility for Operations-Related Damage

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 406-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphna Shraga
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
First Time

In the five decades that followed the Korea operation, where for the first time the United Nations commander agreed, at the request of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to abide by the humanitarian provisions of the Geneva Conventions, few UN operations lent themselves to the applicability of international humanitarian law

A Winding Road to the Additional Protocols (1950–1968)

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-129
Author(s):  
Giovanni Mantilla
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter traces the events that followed the adoption of Common Article 3 (CA3) in 1949 until 1968. It analyzes formal debates that resurfaced in the United Nations (UN) about revising and developing the international legal rules for armed conflict, which lead to the negotiation of the two Additional Protocols (APs) that complement the 1949 Geneva Conventions. It also explains how the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) rested on its laurels through the extension of CA3 on situations of internal violence that could not be plausibly characterized as armed conflict. The chapter mentions ICRC activities between 1950 and the mid-1960s that reveal persistent efforts to make up for the operation of CA3 in the gray zones. It examines interruption of the reflection of the ICRC by episodes of frustration and abuse that involve concerns about detained persons in diverse internal violent contexts.

Inauguration of the International Museum of the Red Cross (Geneva, 29 October 1988)

1988 ◽  
Vol 28 (267) ◽  
pp. 540-542
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Swiss Confederation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Look

The International Museum of the Red Cross was inaugurated on 29 October 1988 in the presence of Swiss federal and cantonal government representatives, members of the permanent missions to the United Nations Office in Geneva and representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the League and many National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.The Museum, initially conceived to provide the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement with a means of becoming better known, attracting funds and inspiring young people, is the outcome of twelve years of tireless effort. Its purpose is not only to document the creation and expansion of the Movement, but also and above all to pay tribute to man's humanity throughout the centuries. As underscored by Mr. Otto Stich, President of the Swiss Confederation, who cut the inaugural ribbon, the International Museum of the Red Cross is “a testimony to the deed, the word or the look that, in the midst of war, violence and disaster, assists and saves”.This is an accurate portrayal of the Museum, which emphasizes humanitarian endeavours rather than war and violence.

Meeting of Experts at ICRC headquarters

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (96) ◽  
pp. 132-132
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

Apart from the practical work it carries on in many regions of the world for the benefit of victims of war and internal disturbances, the International Committee of the Red Cross unremittingly pursues its mission of diminishing as much as possible the evils engendered by hostilities of all kinds. The United Nations, as is well known, has displayed its concern for this problem in a resolution adopted unanimously by its General Assembly in December 1968.

Strengthening of the Coordination of Humanitarian Emergency Assistance of the United Nations Organization — Statement by Mr. Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross at the United Nations General Assembly (New York, 20 November 1992)

1993 ◽  
Vol 33 (292) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Humanitarian Emergency ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Emergency Assistance ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Cold War

The end of the cold war raised hopes for a more peaceful world. While in the new climate of international relations tension has indeed eased in several areas of conflict, violence has flared up in other parts of the world and is today claiming not thousands but millions of victims on every continent.

News Items

1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (23) ◽  
pp. 92-96
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
The United Nations

In view of the fighting which broke out again in Katanga, the International Committee undertook as a matter of urgency the necessary measures of protection and assistance.As soon as he arrived on the spot on December 21, 1962, Mr. G. C. Senn, delegate of the ICRC, made arrangements with the armed forces of the United Nations to enable the Katanga Red Cross and ambulance men to carry out their action, especially by the issuing of passes to its personnel and by registering ambulances at road-blocks.

Human Rights Prize awarded to the ICRC

1978 ◽  
Vol 18 (207) ◽  
pp. 341-341
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

The International Committee of the Red Cross was one of the recipients of the 1978 Human Rights Prize, which the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kurt Waldheim, presented to the President of the ICRC, Mr. Alexander Hay, in New York on 11 December before the United Nations General Assembly, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. The prize was awarded to the ICRC for its work in promoting observance of human rights.

Internal displacement and the conflict in Abkhazia

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin D. Mooney
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The United Nations

AbstractIn the internal displacement crisis arising from the secessionist armed conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, ethnic Georgians are the principal victims. They have been displaced from Abkhazia by a policy of ethnic cleansing which, though perhaps not fully developed at the time of the actual displacement, has rendered the area ethnically homogeneous and certainly succeeded in ensuring that it so remains. This paper focuses on the nature and effectiveness of the international community's response to the ethnically-motivated displacement and resulting demographic manipulation. The mandate and operations of each of the relevant international actors involved, namely the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Military Observers (UNOMIG), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) peacekeepers, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), are examined to determine their protection function both separately and collectively. The constraints under which each organization must operate in this situation and concerns regarding Russia's dominance of the CIS operation for the pursuit of its own strategic interests are considered as contributing factors to the lack of effective protection for the internally displaced Georgians and those still at risk of so becoming.

Observer status for the International Committee of the Red Cross at the United Nations — A legal viewpoint

1991 ◽  
Vol 31 (280) ◽  
pp. 37-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Koenig
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Consultative Status ◽  
The United Nations

In many respects, observer status for the ICRC will place the practical co-operation that already existed between the institution and the United Nations on a stronger legal basis. It will also spare the ICRC the considerable drain on its resources that was necessary, when it had only consultative status, to bring its pragmatic inter arma caritas proposals before the United Nations.

Annual Report of the International Committee

1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (31) ◽  
pp. 559-559
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
The United Nations

During the year which preceded the celebration of its Centenary, the International Committee of the Red Cross found itself in the forefront of the news when the United Nations asked it for its help in controlling vessels bound for Cuba. It did not in the end have to undertake this mission which was outside its traditional humanitarian activity. The episode, however, was a striking manifestation of the moral authority and the confidence felt today in the neutral body which founded the Red Cross a hundred years ago. The Cuban crisis also gave the ICRC the opportunity of denning the contribution it can, in cases of grave peril, bring to the maintenance of peace.

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