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The protection of victims of disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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The protection of victims of armed conflicts is laid down in the Geneva Conventions, to which were added in 1977 some extremely important definitions contained in the Protocols.

But the protection of victims of disasters, natural or otherwise, has still not been governed by any international instruments binding governments. It is true that numerous attempts have been made to organize and co-ordinate relief when a disaster has occurred, with varying results, but the situation of individuals in a country struck by a disaster is governed only by that country's national legislation.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 18 , Issue 204 , June 1978 , pp. 160 - 161
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1978

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