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Humanitarian Action: Protection and Assistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jean-Pierre Hocké
Jean-Pierre Hocké*
Affiliation:
Member of the Directorate of the ICRC, Director for Operational Activities
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At a time when so many tragic events are taking place in so many parts of the world, I do not think that your Commission would be satisfied with a technical account on the nature and conditions of humanitarian assistance. It would seem pointless because it would be outside the context of tragic reality. Let us think of what is happening in Lebanon, the large-scale fighting that could start up again at any time on the Planalto in Angola, the fate of the Afghan and Khmer people—to cite only those few examples.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 24 , Issue 238 , February 1984 , pp. 11 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1984

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Footnotes

1

Speech to the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, New York, 12 November 1983.

References

page 13 note 1 World Food Programme.

page 13 note 2 Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator.

page 15 note 1 Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Humanitarian Operations in Kampuchea. (Ed.)