“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.

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 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.

“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.

Increasing Dissemination of the Soldier's Manual

1973 ◽  
Vol 13 (145) ◽  
pp. 196-196
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
Geneva Conventions

This manual, as our readers know, reproduces and illustrates for the armed forces the essential provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The pilot edition of 10,000 copies in 1969 was sent by the ICRC to Governments and National Red Cross Societies. The booklet was revised according to their comments and published in pocket-size format. In 1971, and again in 1972, the English, French, Spanish and Arabic versions issued totalled 150,000 copies; 6,000 copies of a Portuguese version were also published.

ICRC surgical activities

1991 ◽  
Vol 31 (284) ◽  
pp. 483-490
Author(s):  
Rémi Russbach ◽  
Robin Charles Gray ◽  
Robin Michael Coupland
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Army Medical ◽  
Geneva Conventions

The surgical activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross stem from the institution's general mandate to protect and assist the victims of armed conflict.The war wounded are thus only one category of the victims included in the ICRC's terms of reference.The ICRC's main role in relation to the war wounded is not to treat them, for this is primarily the responsibility of the governments involved in the conflict and hence their army medical services. The task of the ICRC is first and foremost to ensure that the belligerents are familiar with the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and apply them, that is, care for members of the enemy armed forces as well as their own and afford medical establishments and personnel the protection to which they are entitled.

International Committee for the Red Cross: Status of Four Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols I and II

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 553-560
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Geneva Conventions

The four 1949 Geneva Conventions (for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armed forces in the field, for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded, sick, and shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea, relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, and relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war) can be found at 6 UST 3114, 3217, 3316, 3516 and 75 UNTS 31, 85, 135, 287. The two 1977 Protocols (I – relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts and II – relating to the protection of victims of noninternational armed conflicts) appear respectively at 16 I.L.M. 1391 and 1442 (1977).

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.

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