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The Red Cross and Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Frédéric Siordet
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From the beginning of its existence the Red Cross has had two objectives: the setting up of relief societies and the promotion of rules in law justifying and facilitating relief action. At the present time it has two types of activity: relief in the field and the improvement of humanitarian law. It is this second activity, the Red Cross contribution to humanitarian law, which we shall consider here.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 8 , Issue 84 , March 1968 , pp. 118 - 134
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1968

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Footnotes

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Extracts from an address in Geneva, in 1967, to the Summer School organized by the World Federation of United Nations Associations in co-operation with the International Student Movement for the United Nations.

References

page 118 note 2 Pictet, J.. The Principles of International Humanitarian Law, ICRC, Geneva, 1967.Google Scholar

page 133 note 1 “Would it not be possible in time of peace to set up societies with the aim of nursing wounded in time of war? Would it not be desirable that … a Congress formulate some international principle, sanctioned by a Convention … which might constitute the basis for societies for the relief of the wounded …?” Dunant, Henry, A Memory of Solferino.Google Scholar