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A Tribute to Jean Pictet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Alexandre Hay ,
Henrik Beer ,
Jean-Georges Lossier ,
I. P. Blishchenko ,
G. I. A. D. Draper ,
Hamed Sultan  and
Dietrich Schindler
Alexandre Hay
Affiliation:
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Henrik Beer
Affiliation:
Secretary-General League of Red Cross Societies
Jean-Georges Lossier
Affiliation:
Former Editor-in-chief of the International Review of the Red Cross
I. P. Blishchenko
Affiliation:
Doctor of Legal Science, Vice-President of the Soviet Lawyers' Association, Secretary to the Association of Democratic Lawyers
G. I. A. D. Draper
Affiliation:
Professor in the University of Sussex
Hamed Sultan
Affiliation:
Member of the Institut d'Egypte, Honorary President of the Egyptian Society of International Law.
Dietrich Schindler
Affiliation:
Professor at the Faculty of LawUniversity of Zurich
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Extract

On 30 June 1979, Mr. Jean Pictet will reach retirement age after forty-two years of service with the ICRC.

He joined the ICRC in 1937 and has had a very full career. He is a thinker, a jurist, a writer, a teacher and at the same time a man of action, who took part in all major Red Cross undertakings; he is the inspirer and the mentor of the Red Cross.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 19 , Issue 210 , June 1979 , pp. 115 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1979

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References

page 126 note 1 Red Cross Principles (1955), p. 7. Google Scholar

page 127 note 1 Recueil des cours de l'Académie de Droit international de La Haye, tome 76 (1950,1), pp. 1–119.Google Scholar

page 127 note 2 P. 5.

page 127 note 3 P. 111.

page 128 note 1 ICRC and Librairie E. Droz, Genève.

page 128 note 2 International Review begins the publication of this work in its present issue.

page 129 note 1 A. W. Sijthoff, Leyden, and Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva, 1973.