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Assistance to the victims of armed conflicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Frits Kalshoven
Frits Kalshoven*
Affiliation:
Professor of International Humanitarian Law University of Leiden
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From 22 to 24 June 1988, an international conference was held in The Hague, Netherlands, on “Humanitarian Assistance in Armed Conflict”. It was organized by the University of Leiden's Red Cross Chair of International Humanitarian Law, together with the National Red Cross Societies of Belgium (Flemish Community) and The Netherlands.

The conference, which was attended by some 180 participants (with Her Royal Highness, Princess Margriet of The Netherlands, as the most distinguished among them) was opened by the Dutch Minister for Development Co-operation, Mr. Pieter Bukman. Professor René Jean Dupuy, professor of International Law at the College de France, Paris, gave the keynote speech at the opening session. Speakers during the three working sessions of the conference included representatives of the ICRC, the League, UNHCR, Médecins sans Frontières, Médecins du Monde, CEBEMO (the Dutch Catholic Organization for Joint Financing of Development Programmes), Save the Children Fund, Oxfam UK, and the academic world.

Type
In the Red Cross and Red Crescent World
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 28 , Issue 267 , December 1988 , pp. 551 - 554
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1988

References

1 See also “Law and Humanitarian Ethics”, International Review of the Red Cross (IRRC), no 257, march–april 1987, pp. 226–229.

2 See “Round Table on the Status of the personnel and volunteers of international and national organizations in humanitarian actions”, IRRC, no 259, july–august 1987, pp. 435–437.