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The ICRC and International Humanitarian Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Alexandre Hay
Alexandre Hay*
Affiliation:
President of the ICRC
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Extract

I am glad to have the opportunity to address such a gathering of eminent personalities concerned with the increasingly grave humanitarian problems of our time.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has, for the last 120 years, served the cause of humanity in a world torn by conflicts.

In 1864, a year after the ICRC was founded, the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, the first multilateral humanitarian law treaty, established a legal basis for ICRC activities and brought about the recognition of the Red Cross movement by the States.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 24 , Issue 238 , February 1984 , pp. 3 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1984

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Footnotes

1

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

References

1 See the address by the ICRC President at the opening meeting of the Twentyfourth International Red Cross Conference, in International Review of the Red Cross, 01–02 1982.Google Scholar