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Recommendations for improving the security of humanitarian workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Frank Schmidt
Frank Schmidt*
Affiliation:
ICRC Department of Operations
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The meeting of heads of delegation and regional delegates held in Glion from 19 to 22 January 1997 was a milestone in the recent history of the ICRC. Its aim was to mobilize senior operational staff around security issues in situations where humanitarian operations are undertaken. The recent tragic events affecting the ICRC (the assassination of ten staff members in Burundi, Chechnya and Cambodia) and the murder of three members of Médecins du monde as well as four United Nations human rights monitors in Rwanda, have highlighted the need to reassess security and humanitarian action on behalf of conflict victims.

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International Committee of the Red Cross
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Issue 317 , April 1997 , pp. 152 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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