Message About the Chibok Girls

(12 MAY 2014) [Trans.: Abdulbasit Kassim] Available at: http://jihadology.net/2014/05/12/new-video-message-from-boko-%e1%b8%a5arams-jamaat-ahl-al-sunnah-li-dawah-wa-l-jihad-shaykh-abu-bakr-shekau-message-about-the-girls/ On 14 April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State. Fifty-seven of the schoolgirls managed to escape soon after their abudction and another girl, Amina Ali Nkeki, escaped on 17 May 2016 after two years in captivity. Negotiations between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram brokered by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss government led to the release of twenty-one girls on 12 October 2016. Another Chibok girl, Maryam Ali Maiyanga, escaped on 5 November 2016 while another batch of eighty-two Chibok girls were released on 6 May 2017 following intense negotiations led by barrister Mustapha Zanna and the intervention of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss government. The Zanna-led negotiation involved the swapping of five Boko Haram prisoners and the payment of an undisclosed amount to Boko Haram...

Santo Domingo-ICRC President in the Far East and Central America — Viet Nam — Yemen — Southern Rhodesia — Mission in Africa

10.1017/s002086040009015x ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 5 (52) ◽

pp. 351-360

Keyword(s):

Far East ◽

International Committee ◽

Political Prisoners ◽

Red Cross ◽

Viet Nam ◽

Santo Domingo ◽

The Far East ◽

Southern Rhodesia ◽

The Government ◽

National Reconstruction

The delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross brought its aid to civilian and political prisoners.One of the ICRC representatives in Santo Domingo, Mr. Pierre Jequier, general delegate for Latin America, visited prisons of the “Constitutional Government” presided over by Colonel Francisco Caamano Deno and of the “Government of National Reconstruction” of General Antonio Imbert. There were no restrictions placed by either on visits.

The ICRC and the world today - Address by Mr. Alexandre Hay, President of the ICRC, at the opening meeting of the Twenty-fourth International Red Cross Conference

10.1017/s0020860400067905 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 22 (226) ◽

pp. 12-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Alexandre Hay

Keyword(s):

International Committee ◽

The Philippines ◽

Red Cross ◽

World Today ◽

The People ◽

The World ◽

The Government ◽

Opening Session

Since the honour devolves upon me in my capacity as President of the International Committee of the Red Cross to take the floor at this point of the opening session of the Twenty-fourth International Red Cross Conference, I will make use of this opportunity to express all the gratitude of the ICRC to the Philippine Red Cross which, with the generous assistance of the government of this country, has prepared, organized and welcomed these sessions of the movement of the Red Cross in this marvellous setting. And I wish also to express my greetings to the people of the Philippines whose reputation for hospitality is so strikingly confirmed today.

ICRC member resigns

10.1017/s0020860400001133 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 17 (194) ◽

pp. 263-263 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Mr. Waldemar Jucker, member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has resigned from the Committee following his appointment by the Swiss Government as of 1 April 1977 as delegate of the Federal Council for questions of economic development.

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

10.1017/s0020860400078426 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 34 (302) ◽

pp. 425-441

Keyword(s):

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

International Conference ◽

War Victims ◽

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.

Accession to the Geneva Conventions

10.1017/s0020860400015837 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 14 (156) ◽

pp. 135-135

Keyword(s):

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Geneva Conventions ◽

South Vietnam ◽

The Republic ◽

The International Committee of the Red Cross has been informed by the Federal Political Department, Berne, that the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, in a letter dated 31 October 1973 and received on 3 December, notified the Swiss Government of its accession to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, to which it made some reservations.

Appeal by the International Committee of the Red Cross on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Additional Protocols of 1977

10.1017/s0020860400076762 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 37 (320) ◽

pp. 471-472

Author(s):

Cornelio Sommaruga

Keyword(s):

International Committee ◽

Armed Conflicts ◽

Red Cross ◽

International Humanitarian Law ◽

Humanitarian Law ◽

National Liberation ◽

Geneva Conventions ◽

20Th Anniversary ◽

The Government ◽

Preparatory Work

Twenty years ago, on 11 June 1977, the plenipotentiaries of over a hundred States and several national liberation movements signed the Final Act of the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts. This Conference had been convened by the government of Switzerland, the depositary State of the Geneva Conventions. After four sessions held between 1973 and 1977, themselves preceded by several years of preparatory work, the Conference drew up two Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, relating to the protection of the victims of international armed conflicts (Protocol I) and of noninternational armed conflicts (Protocol II).

Geneva Conventions

10.1017/s0020860400014765 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 2 (21) ◽

pp. 657-657 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Geneva Conventions ◽

The Government

The International Committee of the Red Cross has received from the Federal Political Department in Berne, the certified true copy of the instrument by which the Government of Ireland ratified the Geneva Conventions of 1949 on September 27, 1962. Such ratification will take effect from March 27, 1963.

ICRC Financial Position in 1971

10.1017/s0020860400079444 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 12 (137) ◽

pp. 443-460

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United States Of America ◽

The United States ◽

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Financial Position ◽

Considerable Impact ◽

The Government

Two events had a considerable impact on the ICRC's financial position in 1971:(a) The message which the Swiss Federal Council addressed to the Federal Assembly, on 8 September 1971, regarding the Confederation's contributions to the International Committee of the Red Cross;(b) Payment by the Government of the United States of America of an extraordinary contribution of 1 million dollars, on 29 June 1971.

Recognition of the Mozambique Red Cross Society

10.1017/s0020860400072053 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 28 (267) ◽

pp. 556-557

Author(s):

Cornelio Sommaruga

Keyword(s):

Geneva Convention ◽

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Public Authorities ◽

The Public ◽

The Government

We have the honour of informing you that the Mozambique Red Cross Society has been officially recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross. This recognition, which took effect on 29 September 1988, brings to 147 the number of National Societies that are members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.Founded on 10 July 1981, the Society officially applied for recognition by the International Committee of the Red Cross on 23 September 1988. In support of its application, it forwarded various documents, including a report on its activities, the text of its Statutes and a copy of Government Decree No. 7/88 of 17 May 1988 attesting that the Mozambique Red Cross Society is recognized by the Government as a voluntary aid society auxiliary to the public authorities in accordance with the provisions of the First Geneva Convention of 1949.

Recognition of the Red Crescent Society of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

10.1017/s0020860400077469 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 24 (242) ◽

pp. 284-285

Author(s):

Alexandre Hay

Keyword(s):

Democratic Republic ◽

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Public Authorities ◽

The Public ◽

The Government ◽

Ministerial Decree

We have the honour to inform you that on 30 August 1984 the International Committee of the Red Cross officially recognized the Red Crescent Society of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.The new Society officially applied for recognition by the International Committee of the Red Cross on 28 May 1984. Its request was supported by various documents, including a copy of its most recent report on its activities, the text of its Statutes and an authenticated copy of the ministerial decree of 21 February 1984 certifying that the Government had recognized the Red Crescent Society as a voluntary aid society auxiliary to the public authorities and as the only Red Crescent Society of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.