“The Red Cross and My Country”: A widely distributed school textbook

1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (126) ◽  
pp. 501-505
Keyword(s):  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
School Textbook

The International Review has already on several occasions given information about the school textbook, nearly a million copies of which have now been published by the ICRC. The article below contains a statement on the different editions at the end of August 1971.

“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.

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 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”.

Geneva Conventions in African Schools

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (100) ◽  
pp. 370-373
Keyword(s):  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
French And English

In the March issue of International Review we gave information on the campaign which had been started in African schools in order to make widely known the sign of the Red Cross, through the medium of a textbook entitled The Red Cross and My Country. This wide campaign aroused both among youth and the authorities an increasing interest. It was stated in that issue that by the end of February the textbook, in French and English, had been distributed in schools in fourteen countries.

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.

The editors-in-chief of the Review, 1869–2019

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (907-909) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Keyword(s):  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review

Since the Bulletin International des Sociétés de Secours aux Militaires Blessés was first published in 1869, the journal that eventually became known as the International Review of the Red Cross has had sixteen editors-in-chief. Each has shaped the journal in his own way. The following list of these editors-in-chief was compiled by ICRC historian Daniel Palmieri.

Analytical index to the International Review of the Red Cross

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (189) ◽  
pp. 625-626
Author(s):  
J.-G. L.
Keyword(s):  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
English Edition ◽  
French Edition ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Analytical Index

In our January 1976 issue, we announced the publication of an index to the French edition of International Review covering the years 1962 to 1974. It gives us pleasure to inform our English-speaking readers that the analytical index to the English edition is now available.

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